Finland closes Murmansk consulate office
Three decades of Finnish diplomatic presence come to an end in Russia’s largest city inside the Arctic Circle. It has
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More Russian Arctic oil via Murmansk redirects to India
The“Surgut” is one of the supertankers loaded with crude oil from Murmansk now sailing past Europe and instead heading to
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New icebreaker has major importance for Northern Sea Route, says Rosatom
The “Ural,” Russia’s third vessel of the powerful LK-60 class, makes its maiden voyage to its home port of Murmansk.
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Tromso terminates friendship agreements with Murmansk, Arkhangelsk and Nadym
Mayor Wilhelmsen, together with politicians from other parties in northern Norway’s largest city, announced in a letter published in Nordlys that a
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Mobilized Russian reservists get combat training along border to NATO
Ahead of deployment in Ukraine, mobilized men are sent to training facilities in Pechenga, the Russian border region to Norway.
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Newly deployed nuke-bombers at Kola is certainly a signalling, expert says
Recent satellite images show that Russia has deployed four Tu-160 and three Tu-95 long-range strategic bombers north to the Olenegorsk
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FSB tightens control at Arctic exit route amid border closure rumours
Crowds of young men fleeing from conscription are Tuesday morning heading towards Norway from Murmansk. Controls are intensified at Titovka
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Picture from N.W.T. among winners of international astronomy photography competition
Taking photos of our universe is hard work, but the winners and contestants in the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s Astronomy Photographer of
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Major fire at Russia’s largest nickel electrolysis workshop
Black acrid smoke is drifting for several kilometers in Monchegorsk Wednesday morning caused by the fire at Nornickel’s factory. The
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Murmansk to get sanctions-free shopping flight to Minsk
Belarus is becoming a popular vacation destination for people from the Russian north as sanctions limit the possibilities to travel
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Murmansk offers 100,000 rubles cash in recruitment campaign for Ukraine war
Governor Andrei Chibis takes a more active role in the Ukraine war and promises payment by signing to “Arctic patriots.”
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Murmansk gets comprehensive facial-recognition surveillance system
Authorities call it the «Safe City project» – the 1,658 CCTV cameras that will be installed in the Murmansk region
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Strengthen border to Nordic countries, says secretary of Russia’s Security Council
The protection of national interests in the border areas is gaining extraordinary importance, says Secretary of Russia’s Security Council. Relations
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Abandoned military airport in Arctic Russia will be reconstructed
As part of a major upgrade of Northern Fleet airstrips in the European Arctic, the Severomorsk-2 that was shut down
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“Useless to continue regional diplomatic relations”
“The closure of the Consulate General is the final confirmation that end has come to a process that started in
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