Murmansk sends deadly new year greeting to Kyiv
The air alarm howled across Ukrainian cities as Russia early morning 2nd of January launched attacks on the neighbouring country.
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Geopolitics (Russia)
Russia’s brand new warship heads to Arctic base
Frigate Admiral Golovko is the most modern surface ship in the Russian Navy. It will serve in the Northern Fleet.
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Bombers from Kola Peninsula take center stage in terror bombing of Ukraine
A group of nine Tu-95MS strategic bombers early Friday morning took off from the Olenya air base and few hours
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Reuters corrects translation error, Russia not sending artillery to Finnish border
Russia is not sending self-propelled artillery to be stationed near the Finnish border, despite an erroneous Reuters report to that
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Moscow aims for another grab: Navy Chief says Russia will expand into Arctic Ocean
Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov underlines that it is a national priority for Russia to make a “full-scale takeover” of Arctic territories
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Northern sea route in the Arctic: the last convoy before the big freeze
Research ship Grigory Mikheev has spent weeks in remote Arctic waters to prepare the ground for year-round shipping on the
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Russia: No signs of any imminent nuclear tests at Novaya Zemlya
Amid dark rhetoric from the Kremlin, lawmakers and propagandists with threats to abandon the test ban treaty, there are hardly
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Border trouble not on agenda when FSB boss visited Norway
Last year’s controversial illegal border crossings and Russia’s military exercises troubling Norwegian fishermen in the Norwegian economic zone were not
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Russian bombers fly over international waters in Arctic
Russian strategic bombers have carried out routine flights over international waters in the Arctic, the defence ministry said on Monday.
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Moscow expels nine Finnish diplomates in retaliation move, closing St. Petersburg consulate
Russia’s Foreign Ministry called on the Finnish Ambassador and delivered a “strong protest” against the “confrontational anti-Russia policy” pursued by
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Russia kicks off strategic aviation exercise over the Barents Sea ahead of next week’s NATO Summit
A large area from the eastern Barents Sea to the Ural Mountains is now closed off for civilian aviation as
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Blog – Arctic Exceptionalism is Over. Who Will Tell the Diplomats?
Today the Arctic Council, the main regional forum of the eight Arctic states, transferred its Chairmanship from Russia to Norway.
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Future of Arctic Council in doubt after end of Russian chairship
Russia’s two-year term as chair of the Arctic Council came to an end Thursday, leaving the future of the council’s
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Russia’s revised foreign policy document aims at “neutralization” of unfriendly action in Arctic
Russia’s place in the world has changed fundamentally since the country adopted its last Foreign Policy Framework Policy in 2016. Back
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“China is our strategic partner,” says Governor of Russian Arctic region
At the same time as Communist Party leader Xi Jinping visited Moscow, a Chinese business delegation came to the far
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