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Blog – Reflecting on Arctic development while trekking across Central Asia

Mia Bennett
Posted: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 at 14:26 — Last Updated: Friday, September 7, 2018 at 13:29
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Nearly five years ago, I wrote a post comparing the Arctic and Central Asia. Though at first glance the regions don’t seem

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Blog – Kirovsk, the town at the end of the Soviet rainbow

Mia Bennett
Posted: Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at 05:00 — Last Updated: Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at 09:24
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Thousands of years ago on Russia’s Kola Peninsula, retreating glaciers shaved off the pointy peaks of the Khibiny Mountains. The

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Bill would allow Russia to tag journalists as “foreign agents”

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, July 5, 2018 at 11:47 — Last Updated: Thursday, July 5, 2018 at 11:51
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It is another crackdown on the Russian media, and it will make it even harder for Russian journalists to engage

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Blog – Walking around Murmansk under the midnight sun

Mia Bennett
Posted: Wednesday, July 4, 2018 at 13:57 — Last Updated: Friday, July 6, 2018 at 11:08
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Last week, I recounted my overland journey with thirty-some colleagues from Kirkenes, Norway to Murmansk, Russia. The five-hour road trip

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Russia upgrades Northern Fleet airbase

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, July 3, 2018 at 11:36
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The Severomorsk-1 is now able to handle the biggest and most heavy military transport planes, the Russian Navy says. The

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Population dropping in Northwestern Russia

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, June 28, 2018 at 11:39 — Last Updated: Thursday, June 28, 2018 at 11:44
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Arkhangelsk and Murmansk Oblasts are the part of the Barents region with sharpest drop in population, while both Northern Sweden

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Blog – Smelters, huskies, and fish pies: the Arctic road from Norway to Russia

Mia Bennett
Posted: Tuesday, June 26, 2018 at 12:13 — Last Updated: Friday, June 29, 2018 at 12:04
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On a gray June day, a group of thirty-odd Arctic scholars and artists participating in a traveling symposium called the

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Russian government to raise retirement age by several years

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, June 20, 2018 at 16:02
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We live longer, are active longer, and therefore we need to work longer, Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev argues as

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PHOTO REPORT – Abandoned Russian airbase to become wealthy residential neighborhood

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, June 11, 2018 at 15:40 — Last Updated: Thursday, June 28, 2018 at 16:27
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Luostari was once the Soviet Union’s nearest airfield to NATO territory. Now, the nearby ghost town of Korzunova could be

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Norwegian-funded school in Northwest Russia inspires cooperation

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, May 11, 2018 at 15:25
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About 70% of the Russian students leave Murmansk for Norway after a year at the gymnasium class. This weekend, the

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Russia to link military installations with trans-Arctic cable

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, April 26, 2018 at 13:13 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 26, 2018 at 13:19
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Starting in Severomorsk on the Kola Peninsula, in Northwestern Russia, the fiber-optic line will provide state-of-the art tele- and data

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Major corruption case clouds Russian base projects in Arctic

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, April 20, 2018 at 11:12
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Two men with close ties to the Ministry of Defence are charged with theft of almost 3 billion rubles in

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First icebreaker to reach the North Pole ends her days in a scrapyard

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 at 10:26 — Last Updated: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 at 11:45
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Rosatom and Nerpa shipyard have signed contract for unloading the spent nuclear fuel from the reactors on board «Arktika». Thereafter,

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Arctic Russia to get a military-themed amusement park

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 10:44 — Last Updated: Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 10:50
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A military-themed amusement park is developed on an order from Minister of Defence Sergey Shoigu and will include a shooting

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Arctic Russia military town left without heating and hot water

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at 10:38
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Residents in the closed military town of Zaozersk on the Barents Sea coast are left in freezing cold as the

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