Blog – Reflecting on Arctic development while trekking across Central Asia
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
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”
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Residents in the closed military town of Zaozersk on the Barents Sea coast are left in freezing cold as the
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