Russian Navy sends clean-up team to Arctic trash dump
Russia’s Northern Fleet sends an ecological clean-up team to Kotelny island to collect and crush oil drums dumped during the
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Cold War
NATO wants to keep the Arctic an area of low tensions
Despite rising tensions with Russia in Eastern Europe, the Baltics and more recently in the United Kingdom, NATO would like
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Russia’s Arctic nuclear dump could become promising fishing area
Thousands of containers with radioactive waste were dumped in the Kara Sea during Soviet times. Now, Russia’s Federal Agency for
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Arctic Council ministerial – View from Russia
The United States hands the Arctic Council’s two-year rotating chairmanship to Finland on May 11th in Fairbanks, Alaska. Foreign ministers
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Blog: Greenland ice holds Cold War peril
It sounds like something from a science-fiction novel or a disaster movie. A hidden city under ice, housing 200 people,
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Report encourages Norway to reopen Olavsvern submarine support base
NATO and partner nations do not currently possess the ability to quickly counter the Russian undersea challenge in much of
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Russian Arctic locations listed as U.S. nuke targets
The Soviet Border Guards station located a few hundred meters from the border to Norway was during the early days
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Finnish, Swedish PMs plan closer defense cooperation
Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipilä and Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven have penned a rare joint missive outlining their plans
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Searchers return to Alaska glacier to recover remains from 1952 military plane crash
A team of military searchers, anthropologists and mountaineers is once again trying to turn back the clock on the crash of
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Villagers suspect nuclear devices buried in Arctic Alaska
As the Department of Energy moves to clean up remnants of Project Chariot — a Cold War-era scheme to create
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