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Dmitry Rogozin heads Russia's commission for Arctic affairs. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP)

Moscow to set up Arctic media service

Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 at 13:12
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Russia will establish a major new media resource aimed at promoting Russian national interest in the Arctic. The new state-sponsored

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Blog: Field notes from Russia

Mia Bennett
Posted: Monday, September 21, 2015 at 17:57 — Last Updated: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 20:19
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In summer above the Arctic Circle, the sun does not set. This phenomenon, generally called the Polar Day, is referred

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Blog: Journey through northwest Russia

Mia Bennett
Posted: Friday, September 11, 2015 at 11:56
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The black smoke of a banya, a lake blanketed by buzzing mosquitos, a dark and silent wooden church, the white back

An allied Sherman Tank passing a knocked out German Panther tank during the advance on Arezzo, Italy in July 1944. Sherman tanks are among the relics Russia's Northern Fleet are raising from a sunken WW2 American ship. (Keystone/Getty Images)

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Russia explores sunken American naval vessel

Trude Pettersen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, August 14, 2015 at 13:28 — Last Updated: Monday, August 17, 2015 at 19:44
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Divers from the Northern Fleet are salvaging weapons and equipment from the American ship “Thomas Donaldson”, which sank after a

Radar stations are under construction in the Russian district of Vorkuta and in the Arctic Murmansk region. (iStock)

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Russians wrap up Arctic ice floe research

Trude Pettersen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, August 5, 2015 at 18:00 — Last Updated: Thursday, August 6, 2015 at 18:26
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An icebreaker sailed from Murmansk yesterday to pick up 17 scientists who have spent four months on an ice floe

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Search for Soviet war dead to continue in Finland

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, July 2, 2015 at 19:16 — Last Updated: Friday, July 3, 2015 at 17:39
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The remains of several Soviet soldiers, believed to have fallen in battle against Finnish forces in 1944, have been found

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North Pole nuclear cruises season started

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, June 9, 2015 at 15:44 — Last Updated: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 21:07
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Russia’s largest nuclear powered icebreaker is currently crushing the Arctic sea ice with 117 tourists on board. Powered with two

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Russia allocates €3,6 million to floating Arctic research stations

Trude Pettersen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at 15:43
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The Russian Government has allocated more than 205 million rubles for resuming operation of floating research stations in the Arctic. As

In this Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014 file photo, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, third right, visits an assembly shop, with the Angara booster rocket at right, at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Plesetsk, northwestern Russia. The recent Angara A5 rocket launch failed and crashed near a near the village of Zabolotye in Arkhangelsk Oblast. (Alexander Astafyev/ Government Press Service/RIA-Novost/AP)

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Rocket fails, falls down near village in Russia’s North

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 13:44 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 23, 2015 at 19:04
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The launch of the experimental Angara A5 from the Plesetsk Space Center flops. The rocket landed near a local village. The

In this 2007 file photo the Vilyuchinsk submarine is moored at a harbor on the Pacific peninsula of Kamchatka. The Orel submarine, of the same type as the Vilyuchinsk, caught fire during repairs at the Zvezdochka shipyard in Severodvinsk, about 1000 kilometers (620 miles) north of Moscow on the White Sea. (AP)

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Fire-struck nuclear submarine to be repaired

Trude Pettersen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at 15:52 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 21:56
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The nuclear submarine “Oryol” was not seriously damaged in Tuesday’s fire at Zvezdochka shipyard, and will be ready for service

Aleksandr Serebryanikov, owner of the Bloger51 site, was in 2013 accused of violations of a criminal code paragraph on incitement of national, racial, or religious enmity. (Thomas Nilsen/Barents Observer)

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Arctic-based Russian blogger walks free

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 13:31 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 7, 2015 at 19:24
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Prosecutors in Murmansk end their case against the man behind the popular Bloger51 news site. Aleksandr Serebryanikov might finally be able

The TTM-1901 (Berkut) will be delivered to the Russian Armed Forces. (Photo: transport-ttm.com)

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Russia’s new Army snowmobile

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, April 1, 2015 at 17:41 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 14:29
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The country is pumping billions and trillion into its armed forces. But not all new equipment looks like a lethal

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Russia plans new floating Arctic research station

Trude Pettersen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 15:23
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Amidst Arctic sea ice reaching all-time minimum for late winter, the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources says that Russia plans

A smelter in Norilsk, Russia. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP)

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Blog: Norilsk, Russia -The inescapability of the company town on Russia’s tundra

Mia Bennett
Posted: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 16:54 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:33
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There are many ways of framing Arctic climate change. On the one hand, countries in the south often see themselves as

Russians have fled the Finnish real estate markets. (Yle)

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Russian property purchases in Finland at near-standstill

Yle News
Posted: Monday, February 2, 2015 at 20:21 — Last Updated: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 21:32
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The economic crisis in Russia has affected Finland in many ways already, now in the form of new cabin purchases