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
Read moreAn over-emphasis on narratives around potential resource bonanzas and hard security issues in the Arctic should be recalibrated by policy
Read moreAccording to a decree signed by President Putin on the 25th August, the Security Council is to establish a special commission that
Read moreAfter months of total isolation in a remote military post in the Arctic archipelago of Novaya Zemlya, Ruslan Shaveddinov last
Read moreThe surprise exercise was announced on the 17th July and is reported to include up to 150,000 soldiers in the
Read moreAccusations of massive fraud and vote rigging notwithstanding, President Vladimir Putin secured a comfortable win in Wednesday’s referendum on constitutional
Read moreA proposed merger of regions in northern Russia spurs controversy in the small and oil-rich Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Some want
Read moreThe Northern Sea Transport Corridor stretches from Murmansk to Kamchatka and might soon be of defining importance for Moscow’s Arctic
Read moreThe Arkhangelsk Oblast and the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO) in Russia’s northwestern Arctic announced on Wednesday in joint news releases
Read morePressure against domestic media is mounting and the country steps up efforts to spread fake news abroad. “We are concerned
Read moreThe strategic document paves way for a massive industrialization of the country’s far north. The strategy includes Russia’s main objectives,
Read more“As normal there are no evidence, just general speculations,” the Embassy writes in a statement to the Barents Observer. On
Read moreMikhail Mishustin grants company Gazprom Neft big drilling acreages in the Yamal Peninsula. Three days after he was announced as
Read moreBy year 2035, the Russian government intends to build at least 40 Arctic vessels, upgrade 4 regional airports, construct railways
Read moreThe decision to build one more office complex for the security service comes only three years after the Stalin-styled new
Read moreThe Tsirkon scramjet-powered cruise missile is said to travel at a speed making it impossible to intercept by any known
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