More than 75% of schools in Murmansk need major repair
By Denis Zagore The heavily militarised region of Murmansk has 77% of its schools in dire need of renovation. Nevertheless, regional
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By 2031, the population of the Murmansk region may decrease by 45 thousand
By Denis Zagore According to data published by Murmanskstat, last year the region’s population decreased by 5.5 thousand people. The population
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A generation of reindeer herders is perishing in the war
The governor of the Yamal-Nenets region in mid-January landed with his helicopter in the southern edge of the vast Yamal
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Young mammoth remains discovered in Siberian permafrost after roughly 50,000 years
Researchers in Siberia are conducting tests on a juvenile mammoth whose remarkably well-preserved remains were discovered in thawing permafrost after
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Two dead, 27 injured in Murmansk train collision
Four passenger coaches derailed and one flipped over after the two trains collided sideways on the tracks at the station
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Massive explosions near Severomorsk, in Arctic Russia
There is no information made public that can tell what exploded inside the military boundaries south of the headquarters of
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Construction begins on a “new flagship of Russian polar research”
By Elizaveta Vereykina On 29 October, an official ceremony was held at the Admiralty shipyards in St Petersburg to start the
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Murmansk-population falls another 2,900 people
There are no 653,600 inhabitants in the region, down 2,900 from January 1. A few hundred people less each month
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BLOG: Long forgotten, these Soviet satellites once linked the Arctic to Moscow
Recently, I wrote about the Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission, which will provide high-speed internet to military and government customers across
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Military recruiters raid Novatek’s construction yard in Murmansk
A thorough search was conducted in the premises of the Belokamenka LNG Construction Center and several foreign workers sent directly
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Artur Chilingarov has passed away at 84
The northern explorer-turned-sanctioned-lawmaker is likely most famous for his 2007 North Pole dive to 4,200 meters below the Arctic Ocean
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New low for the people of Pechenga
The population of the far northern Russian border municipality once counted almost 60,000. By January 2024, the number had dropped
Read moreCritical workforce shortage grips Russia’s North
Russia, especially its “depressed” regions, is suffering from a labor shortage. The decline in the workforce is evidenced by both
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Ship with Russian university students goes aground in remote archipelago Franz Josef Land
The vessel that was built at the Ukrainian Kherson Shipyard in 1975 got in trouble late evening 24th of July
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Russia plans Svalbard science complex in cooperation with “friendly states”
The new science and research center will be built on the same model as the hyped Snowflake station to appear
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