Tighter sanctions target Nornickel as pressure mounts
More than ten companies associated with the Russian mining and metallurgy giant are included in the U.S list of sanctions.
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Business (Russia)
Doomed Arctic LNG platform arrives in Arctic Russia
After three weeks of towing across rough Arctic waters, the 640,000 ton heavy production platform arrives in the remote port
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Explosion at the Usinsk oil processing plant in Arctic Russia
The reason for the explosion at the Usinsk oil processing plant is “not yet clear,” representatives of local Russian authorities
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Moscow’s Arctic policy is corrupt and based on lies says exiled energy expert
Mikhail Krutikhin argues that several of the major industrial projects currently under development in the Russian Arctic are nothing but
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New sanctions take aim on Russia’s war economy
Energy projects in the Russian Arctic are among the main targets of the new sanctions announced by British and U.S
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Novatek sends 200 engineers to shipyard due to urgent need for more Arctic tankers
According to newspaper Kommersant, Russia’s biggest producer of LNG has decided to move 200 workers from its natural gas field
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Shipments of liquefied gas from Russian Arctic could be stopped this summer
By Elizaveta Vereykina, The Independent Barents Observer The upcoming EU sanctions force Russia to search for new markets, as Europe
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New U.S sanctions take aim at Russian Arctic shipping
Companies and ships engaged in supplies of components to Novatek’s project Arctic LNG 2 are added to the U.S sanctions
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Murmansk governor and Belarus businessman to build seaport terminal on Kola Bay
The major Belarus seaport terminal projected built on the shores of the Kola Bay might be among Minsk’s biggest ever
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Nornickel moves production to China to circumvent sanctions
War sanctions bite hard on Russia’s Arctic mining and metallurgical giant producing nickel and copper on the Kola Peninsula and
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Novatek could get a discount for pumping gas in Russia’s Far North
By Elizaveta Vereykina, The Independent Barents Observer This is a way of paying for the construction of the pipeline in
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Russia’s Novatek may scale back Arctic LNG 2, focus on Murmansk
Russia’s Novatek is being forced to scale back its huge Arctic LNG 2 project after Western sanctions curbed its access
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Russia says it will start direct tourist voyages to Svalbard
Ildar Neverov, the leader of state-owned company Arktikugol, made the announcement about a direct sea route from mainland Russia to
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Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 suspends gas liquefaction amid sanctions, lack of tankers
By Marwa Rashad and Vladimir Soldatkin Novatek, Russia’s largest producer of liquefied natural gas (LNG), has suspended production at its
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Moscow plans extractive industry boom and thousands of jobs for Arctic town of Dikson
A fancy document presented by a group of consultancy companies outlines billions of rubles of investments in upgraded infrastructure and
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