Russian troops hone landing skills near Norwegian border
A big landing ship sails into the Pechenga Bay to pick up marine infantry from nearby garrisons. The exercise started
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Northern Fleet
Russia’s Northern Fleet holds exercise in Barents Sea
Over 15 surface vessels, several submarines and support ships, as well as aircraft and helicopters, take part in the Northern
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Russia to replace sunken floating dock in Murmansk
The new drydock will replace the floating dry dock that last year sunk into the Arctic waters of the Kola
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Russian navy holds live-fire exercise in Norwegian Sea for second time in a month
Northern Fleet warship Severomorsk tested its weapons systems outside the coast of northern Norway. The Russian navy is expanding its
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Quick progress on Russian upgrades to High Arctic airbase
The runway in Russia’s Arctic military base of Nagurskoye will strengthen Russia’s control over Arctic air space. It is located
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Russian Navy building new supply depot for Arctic operations
A military logistics center in Arkhangelsk is to handle millions of tons of goods destined troops and bases across the
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Russia says it held naval drill near Norwegian waters
The Northern Fleet’s press service says the largest missile cruisers, long-range bombers, anti-submarine aircraft, helicopters and fighter jets took part
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Russian military to get fast, secure internet through trans-Arctic cable
A several thousand-kilometer-long fiber optic cable is to be laid along the Russian Arctic coast as part of the Armed
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Izvestia: What awaits foreign military vessels on Northern Sea Route
The Russian government has elaborated a set of rules for foreign naval vessels’ sailing on the Northern Sea Route, Izvestia
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Russian navy does submarine hunt training in Norwegian Sea
Russia’s Northern Fleet reports on Sunday that the group of three navy vessels from Severomorsk on the Kola Peninsula successfully
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Norway wary of China’s growing presence in Arctic Russia
Chief of Norway’s military intelligence service, Lieutenant General Morten Haga Lunde, highlighted Chinese, Russian Arctic cooperation in his annual focus
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Russia accuses Norway of northern military buildup
Norway allows allied nuclear submarines to make port calls to the civilian industrial harbor of Grøtsund north of Tromsø, 375
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Russia’s new Arctic naval base built in 6 months
The construction of the new base in Tiksi is almost completed, Northern Fleet commander Nikolay Yevmenov says. Yevmenov in early
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Troops in Russia’s High Arctic undergo “military-patriotic” training
The new political department of the Russian Armed Forces has its first training session for soldiers serving in High Arctic
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Russia to hold massive Arctic war games in 2019
Key parts of next year’s Tsentr-2019 drills will be held in the area between the Arctic archipelagos of Novaya Zemlya
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