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Blog: Arctic Circle—The outside world keeps walking in

Marc Lanteigne
Posted: Monday, October 31, 2022 at 08:35
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This year’s Arctic Circle Assembly was a near-return to normal operations following previous postponements and restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic. Yet the event could hardly

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Blog: A NATO admiral, Chinese diplomat, & Faroese metal band walk into a concert hall

Mia Bennett
Posted: Thursday, October 27, 2022 at 12:44
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Arctic Circle 2022 gathered sans Russians but with a NATO admiral, Chinese officials, and a Faroese metal band, proving that

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U.S. Senate candidates agree they want to protect Arctic Alaska from Russia

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Monday, October 24, 2022 at 13:32
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With Russian President Vladimir Putin at war with the West in Ukraine, the need to protect Arctic Alaska from foreign

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Russia, China could challenge Canada’s ‘tenuous hold’ in Arctic, says top soldier

Murray Brewster, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 11:36
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Gen. Wayne Eyre said that while the threat isn’t immediate, it’s out there Canada’s hold on the outer reaches of

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China, Russia among global priorities, including in Arctic, in U.S. security strategy

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 15:22
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Out-competing China and constraining Russia, including in the Arctic, are among the global priorities laid out in the U.S. national

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Senate committee studying Arctic security in response to int’l interest in region

Luke Caroll, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 at 16:50
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A northern defence analyst says Canada is lagging far behind its Nordic allies in Arctic defence The chair of a

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Mitko, Russian Arctic expert, dies at 81 under house arrest

The Associated Press
Posted: Tuesday, October 4, 2022 at 09:56
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Valery Mitko, a renowned Russian polar scientist, has died while under house arrest on charges of treason. He was 81.

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Patrol spots Chinese, Russian naval ships off Alaska island

The Associated Press
Posted: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 at 10:17 — Last Updated: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 at 10:19
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A U.S. Coast Guard ship on routine patrol in the Bering Sea came across a guided missile cruiser from China,

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Construction of second Arctic floating nuclear power plant started

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, September 1, 2022 at 10:37
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Three years after “Akademik Lomonosov” started to produce electricity for the remote Siberian community of Pevek, the first of four

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U.S. to name ambassador-at-large for Arctic region

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, August 29, 2022 at 16:42 — Last Updated: Monday, August 29, 2022 at 16:50
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The United States plans to name an ambassador-at-large for the Arctic region, the State Department announced on Friday. It will

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Chinese shippers shun Russian Arctic waters

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, August 24, 2022 at 08:45
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For the first time in several years, China’s state shipping company COSCO is not not sailing on the Northern Sea

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Blog: The Arctic in a warming world

Marc Lanteigne
Posted: Monday, August 15, 2022 at 15:07 — Last Updated: Monday, August 15, 2022 at 16:29
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The far north has long been considered a barometer for the measurement of global climate change, including via phenomenon such

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Isolated Russia to invite “non-Arctic” states to develop its North

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 09:39
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Logistics chains falter, investors flee and foreign markets vanish. But President Putin argues that Russia together with countries from outside

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Arctic Security: Will Canada’s federal budget deliver for NORAD?

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 at 19:51 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 7, 2022 at 13:43
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The North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) has provided continental defence of North America for over sixty years, but urgently

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Blog: Blowback – The Ukraine Conflict and Arctic Security

Marc Lanteigne
Posted: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 at 15:21
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The illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February will result in aftershocks throughout Europe and the global community for

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