Are potential Arctic security threats eclipsing urgent action on climate? A new study makes its case
An over-emphasis on narratives around potential resource bonanzas and hard security issues in the Arctic should be recalibrated by policy
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Security strongmen take on key role in Russian Arctic policy
According to a decree signed by President Putin on the 25th August, the Security Council is to establish a special commission that
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Kremlin-critic soldier tells his story about military service in Russia’s Arctic
After months of total isolation in a remote military post in the Arctic archipelago of Novaya Zemlya, Ruslan Shaveddinov last
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Russia’s Northern fleet to perform drills in Barents Sea
The surprise exercise was announced on the 17th July and is reported to include up to 150,000 soldiers in the
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Russia’s Arctic Nenets Autonomous Okrug only region to vote against Putin’s constitutional reform
Accusations of massive fraud and vote rigging notwithstanding, President Vladimir Putin secured a comfortable win in Wednesday’s referendum on constitutional
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Merger of Russian Arctic regions into territory as big as Scandinavia sparks controversy
A proposed merger of regions in northern Russia spurs controversy in the small and oil-rich Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Some want
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Russian Arctic shipping could follow this new route
The Northern Sea Transport Corridor stretches from Murmansk to Kamchatka and might soon be of defining importance for Moscow’s Arctic
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“Catastrophic” economic situation prompts merger talks for two Russian regions in Arctic
The Arkhangelsk Oblast and the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO) in Russia’s northwestern Arctic announced on Wednesday in joint news releases
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Moscow disinforms about coronavirus, says press freedom organization
Pressure against domestic media is mounting and the country steps up efforts to spread fake news abroad. “We are concerned
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Putin signs Arctic master plan calling for more industrialization, partnerships and stability
The strategic document paves way for a massive industrialization of the country’s far north. The strategy includes Russia’s main objectives,
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Russian Embassy denies accusations of influence operations in Norway
“As normal there are no evidence, just general speculations,” the Embassy writes in a statement to the Barents Observer. On
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New Russian PM grants drilling fields to Gazprom in Arctic
Mikhail Mishustin grants company Gazprom Neft big drilling acreages in the Yamal Peninsula. Three days after he was announced as
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Moscow adopts 15-year plan for Northern Sea Route
By year 2035, the Russian government intends to build at least 40 Arctic vessels, upgrade 4 regional airports, construct railways
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Russian security agency to build another building in Murmansk
The decision to build one more office complex for the security service comes only three years after the Stalin-styled new
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New Russian hypersonic missile to be tested in White Sea before Christmas
The Tsirkon scramjet-powered cruise missile is said to travel at a speed making it impossible to intercept by any known
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