Top Russian official on Arctic affairs resigns
Aleksandr Krutikov was expected to play a key role in Russia’s upcoming chairmanship in the Arctic Council The First Deputy
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Politics (Russia)
Russia wants to boost tourism to Arctic archipelago
Government developers call for the building of Russian cruise vessels that can bring wealthy travelers to the far northern Franz
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Russia’s Northern Fleet begins 2nd stage of COVID-19 vaccination
Russian military medics have begun the second stage of vaccination of the Northern Fleet personnel, defence officials announced Thursday. Thousands
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Russia’s Northern Fleet prepares Arctic deployment of hypersonic Kinzhal missile
Training of personnel and building of infrastructure for the new weapon starts in 2021, Russian military representatives say. A decision
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Northern Fleet Commander says Zapad-2021 will be next year’s ‘main effort’
Part of the joint strategic exercise of the armed forces of Russia and Belarus will take place in the area
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Barents Observer opens another door through Russia’s censorship wall
Говорит баренц (Talking Barents), an audio-version of all Russian language news made available via podcast services, is the latest move
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Putin reshuffles top team on environment and Arctic
The Russian Minister of Natural Resources is fired and replaced by the Minister of the Far East and Arctic. Speculations
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Moscow pushes for more Arctic drilling
Prime Minister Mishustin wants to tap into vast oil and gas resources on the Arctic shelf and commissions his cabinet
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Behind Putin’s new Arctic Strategy lies a quest for natural resources
The new guiding document for Russia’s vast Arctic territories includes plenty of focus on oil, natural gas and shipping, and
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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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