Canada will buy a sixth Arctic and offshore patrol ship
The Canadian government is purchasing another ship to be built in Halifax (Maritimes), the defence minister said a day after
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Finland ready to back new nuclear disarmament talks, says president Niinistö
Finnish president Sauli Niinistö delivered the opening statements to kick off Finland’s quarterly national defence course on Monday morning at
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Pilots warned of GPS jamming in Arctic Norway
“Reasons to believe it could be related to military exercise activities outside Norway’s borders,” says the Civil Aviation Authority to
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Russian bombers fly mission along Norwegian coast: report
The two Russian bombers were flying in international airspace simultaneously as NATO’s large Trident Juncture exercise takes place. “Two strategic
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Russia to test-launch rockets near Norway’s Arctic coast in last days of Trident Juncture
The area of rocket test firings is only about 40 kilometers north of Gamvik and Berlevåg on Norway’s Barents Sea
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Are the Russian Navy’s modernization plans jeopardized by the sunken dock?
Russia’s biggest dry docks might remain on the bottom of the Kola Bay. The 80,000-ton floating dry dock that, on
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Russia’s only aircraft carrier damaged as floating dock sinks
One person is reported dead and Russia’s only aircraft carrier has been damaged as floating dry dock sinks into the
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Blog – After Arctic Circle conference unfolds in Iceland, American tourists and soldiers head north
Two weeks ago, Arctic Circle, the region’s largest annual gathering, took place for the fifth year in a row in Iceland’s
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Trident Juncture: Nordic nations stress importance of regional defence, Moscow worries about stability
Moscow warns that Sweden’s and Finland’s participation in NATO’s Trident Juncture drill is jeopardizing regional stability. In a joint newspaper
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Russian bill would restrict soldiers’ social media activity
State Duma lawmakers are preparing a law punishing soldiers for publishing any information about themselves on social media. Aimed at
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Norway invites Russia’s Lavrov for 2019 commemoration of Red Army’s liberation of Arctic Finnmark
October 2019 will mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Norway’s northernmost region from Nazi occupation by the Red
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Russian military conducts confidence-building visit to Lapland Air Command in the Finnish Arctic
A team of Russian officers has arrived in northern Finland to conduct a confidence and security-building evaluation visit of the
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NATO set to launch massive Trident Juncture war games in southern Norway, air forces to fly above Arctic Europe
Land forces will mainly exercise in southern Norway, while air forces will fly above the Arctic Circle from the airports
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Major deal between Sweden’s Saab and U.S. Air Force a “sign of closer transatlantic ties”, says defence expert
A new deal means that the Swedish manufacturer Saab will for many years to come be making trainer aircrafts for
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Last three reactor compartments from Cold War subs to be pulled from Russia’s waters next year
Twenty-five years with safe decommissioning of Cold War submarines in the Russian north will come to an end next year.
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