Simulated attack on Northern Norway targets by Russian bombers revealed
Director of the Norwegian Intelligence Service discloses information about Russian offensive exercises against targets in northern Norway. «Less than a
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Kola Peninsula
Russia: A new national park on the Kola Peninsula
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed Monday a decree protecting 840 square kilometers of the Khibiny mountains. Environmental groups, like
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Russia wants cryptocurrency farms in Murmansk region
New cryptocurrency farms should be built in the Murmansk region where there is abundant electricity available at affordable prices, Kravchenko
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Can Barents region become a superhub on China’s Arctic Silk Road?
A new sea port with railway connection could potentially handle up to ten percent of container trade between China and
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«Finland’s Pyhäjoki nuclear plant takes our pension money»
While four million elderly Russians live below the poverty line, the country’s pension fund pays for Rosatom-backed nuclear plant in
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No leakage from sunken Russian nuclear sub in the Barents Sea. Yet.
After more than 10 years on the seafloor of the Barents Sea, no detectable levels of radiation are measured from
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Keeping Arctic stable and peaceful is top priority, says Norway’s foreign minister
Norway’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ine Eriksen Søreide, says the Arctic Council is one of the most important tools to
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Russia drills nuclear forces, strategic bombers along coast of Norway
Extreme wind conditions hindered Norway to scramble F-16s. Early Monday morning, two Tu-160 strategic bombers took off and headed north
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Dreaming of a White Christmas on the Kola Peninsula
Nornickel plans significant reduction of smelting operations in Nikel to achieve a target of 50% reduction in sulfur dioxide pollution
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Russia: Decades-long nuclear accident cleanup to enter critical phase in 2023
Donor countries agree to fund an additional study on how to extract the damaged spent nuclear fuel from Tank 3A
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Challenges ahead for electric car chargers along Europe’s northernmost highway
Bellona teams up with regional authorities to see how and where charger should come between Murmansk and the border to
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Radars on missile watch disturb TV signals in Norway’s north-easternmost town
The radars are highly visible above the town centre, but what’s going on inside the intelligence station on up the
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Sharp drop in emissions near Norwegian border, says Russian mining company
New technology at the ore-briquetting plant in Zapolyarny could be good news for the fragile taiga forest. But does Nornickel
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Population growth in military towns of Kola Peninsula, Russia
Among the areas with demographic growth is the border municipality of Pechenga. Figures from the regional office of Rosstat, the
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Russia’s sole aircraft carrier to get €657M overhaul
Russia will be without any aircraft carrier until late 2020 as repair work on «Admiral Kuznetsov» starts after summer. TASS
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