Americans close the door to Russia’s biggest lithium mine
The Polar Lithium project in the Kola Peninsula is included in the new US sanctions list. The Kolmozero lithium resources
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Sanctioned shadow fleet gas carrier zigzags between Norwegian oil platforms
For more than a week, the 236 meter long LNG carrier has been sailing back-and-forth in the North Sea. On
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US warships sailed into the Barents Sea
The two destroyers of the Arleigh Burke-class are the first US Navy surface warships to operate in the Barents Sea since
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Governor: Murmansk is under drone attack
“An attack by enemy drones is taking place in our region,” Andrei Chibis says in a statement. UAVs are believed
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Pilots fear fuel shortages amid sudden airspace closures in Russia’s North
Drone attacks north to the Kola Peninsula have several times in the last few weeks caused aviation authorities to shut
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Town of submariners honours killed occupants
A monument is erected in the north Russian navy base of Polyarny for local men killed in Ukraine. Construction works
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Kola wildfire smoke drift into Nordic neighbours
Fires on dry peat bogs at several locations west of Murmansk on Russia’s Barents Sea coast continue to send smoke
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Drone strikes Russian bomber at Arctic airfield: Ukrainian defense ministry
Russia’s war against Ukraine has for the first time hit back on the Arctic. A Tu-22M3 bomber at the Olenya
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Google adds North Sámi to translation service
Languages of multiple ethnic groups in Russia are included in Google Translate’s update. North Sámi is the largest of the
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Nornickel moves production to China to circumvent sanctions
War sanctions bite hard on Russia’s Arctic mining and metallurgical giant producing nickel and copper on the Kola Peninsula and
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Men from north Russian navy towns refuse to fight, face jail for desertion
By Atle Staalesen and Olesia Krivtsova Since the start of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, the military court in Zaozersk,
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Submariners from Russia’s Northern Fleet fight and fall in Ukraine
A significant number of sailors from the naval base towns in the Kola Peninsula are killed in Russia’s war of
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Novatek could get a discount for pumping gas in Russia’s Far North
By Elizaveta Vereykina, The Independent Barents Observer This is a way of paying for the construction of the pipeline in
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Jaeger battalion GSV gets weapons to destroy low-flying aircraft and drones
Specialized invasion defense soldiers on the border with Russia’s heavily militarised Kola Peninsula are the first in Norway to be
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Will Russia revive infamous SMERSH counter-intelligence in Kola Peninsula?
The structure established by Josef Stalin to fight “anti-Soviet elements” is today praised by the security agencies in the heavily
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