Frigate in Barents Sea is manned by sailors with battle experience from Ukraine
Servicemen on board the Admiral Kasatonov successfully applied their war experiences during a recent exercise in the Barents Sea, the Northern Fleet
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Politics (Russia)
Russia accuses Norway of militarizing Svalbard Arctic islands
Russia accused Norway of militarizing the Svalbard archipelago and said on Friday it had summoned the Norwegian ambassador to Moscow
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Putin’s dealmaker with Trump calls for joint action in the Arctic
“The Arctic is too important for Cold War-style politics,” says Kirill Dmitriev, the influential businessman and government official that plays
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Russia withdraws accreditation of Norwegian honorary consul Andrei Shalyov
Russia’s Foreign Ministry in Moscow has withdrawn the exequatur and accreditation of Arkhangelsk citizen Andrei Shalyov. The move comes amid
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Damaged nuclear icebreaker is repaired in the ice
Few days after it crashed into a cargo ship, the 50 Let Pobedy continues to escort ships across the icy waters of
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Northern Fleet faces wide gap between ambitions and resources, intel report
The combat power of the Russian Navy is under pressure and forces the Northern Fleet to chose between solving missions
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Lift-off for new Russian military satellites
The Russian Aerospace Forces in Plesetsk have launched a Soyuz-2.1B rocket with military payload. The launch took place in the
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New radars sharpen Russian air defense over northern Finland, Norway
For decades, there have been military radars on the small mountain top in the Pechenga area. From Iyvara, there is
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Kola, Karelia soldiers likely to increase from 30,000 to 80,000
Thousands of soldiers from the three brigades inside the Arctic Circle, near the border with NATO, are killed or wounded
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Floating nuclear power plant completes first fuel cycle
Both reactors on the Akademik Lomonosov have reloaded the uranium fuel elements for the first time since the floating nuclear power plant
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Tu-95MS bombers from Arctic Russia launched in Ukraine attack
Tu-95MS bombers from Olenya airfield in the Murmansk region are Wednesday launching a large-scale attack with cruise missiles against Ukraine.
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Shipping on Northern Sea Route lags far behind plans
For years, Vladimir Putin has insisted that annual shipments on the far northern route should reach 80 million tons by
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Upgraded nuclear missile sub conducts tests in icy waters
After more than six years of upgrades, the old Bryansk will soon be sailing deterrence patrols in the northeast Barents Sea and
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Northern Fleet gives priority to faraway voyages
A key part of combat training for the Russian navy’s new frigates in 2025 will be long-distance sailings. In Severomorsk,
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Here comes Yakutia, Russia’s newest nuclear icebreaker
The flag-raising ceremony happened at the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg on December 28. It took four and a half
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