Northern Sea Route

Russia cancels Norwegian cruise ship’s Arctic expeditions

20 August 201920 August 2019 Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments cruise ships, cruises, defence, Franz Josef Land, Hurtigruten, military, Murmansk, Northern Sea Route, tourism

The two high-profile voyages had been planned for years with prestigious support from regional authorities in Murmansk. 250 passengers will

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Luxury cruise ship leaves Alaska toward Northern Sea Route

15 August 2019 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments Alaska, cruise ships, cruises, Nome, Northern Sea Route, tourism, tromso

The Silver Explorer gets escort by a Russian icebreaker as it launches its ice edge cruising through Russian Arctic waters.

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Russia’s floating nuclear power plant worries Alaskans

9 August 20199 August 2019 Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Akademik Lomonosov, Alaska, energy, floating nuclear power plant, Northern Sea Route, nuclear, Pevek, radiation

Russia has produced the world’s first floating nuclear power plant. A barge mounted with nuclear reactors is expected to begin

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Putin’s Arctic shipping goals mobilizing officials, industry

8 August 20198 August 2019 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments coal, energy, gas, LNG, Northern Latitudinal Passage, Northern Sea Route, oil, shipping

How much goods can be shipped along Russia’s Arctic route between Europe and Asia? The Ministry of Transport believes shipments

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Russia, China to do joint research in Arctic Siberia

7 August 20197 August 2019 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments China-Russia Arctic Research Center, Northern Sea Route, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of Russian Academy of Sciences, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), shipping

Chinese and Russian scientists part of the China-Russia Arctic Research Center have announced their first joint project together will be

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Moscow supports Vostok Coal’s expansion into protected Arctic tundra

7 August 20197 August 2019 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments coal, Dikson, energy, mining, national parks, Northern Sea Route, shipping, Taymyr peninsula, VostokCoal

Company Vostok Coal has been been fined several hundred million rubles for illegal mining in Russia’s Taymyr Peninsula, but still

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Russian grains to reach Japan via Northern Sea Route

31 July 2019 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments food, Irtysh River, Japan, Northern Sea Route, Omsk, Sabetta, shipping, Siberia

It could open a new window to Asia, a regional governor in Siberia argues. The region of Omsk in 2018

An Su-34 bomber jet flyng near Moscow in 2009. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AFP/ Getty Images)

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Russia establishes new Arctic air squadron to protect its Northern Sea Route

19 July 201919 July 2019 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments air force, defense, Northern Sea Route, Russia, squadron, Su-34

A Russian fleet of Su-34 fighter jets is to be deployed across the Northern Sea Route. Their main base might

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Russia’s Rosneft demands tax breaks to build pipeline to Arctic shipping lane: report

11 July 201911 July 2019 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments energy, Northern Sea Route, oil, pipelines, Rosneft, taxes, Taymyr peninsula

Rosneft makes clear that it can build a 600 km long pipeline to the Arctic Ocean and export millions of

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Russia aims to make Northern Sea Route world-class shipping lane

10 July 201910 July 2019 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments energy, icebreakers, Northern Sea Route, Rosatom, shipping

With new super-powerful icebreakers, the Russian Arctic route might be able to compete with the Suez Canal, leader of nuclear

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LNG tanker breaking through thick ice in Russia’s eastern Arctic

5 July 2019 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments energy, gas, icebreakers, LNG, Northern Sea Route, sea ice, shipping

The Vladimir Rusanov is breaking its way from Sabetta to Korea through Russia’s Arctic route. The ship left Sabetta, the

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Small town in Arctic Russia to become Northern Sea Route shipping hub

26 June 201926 June 2019 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments coal, Dikson, energy, Infrastructure, Northern Sea Route, oil, shipping

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signs the decree that is to turn the remote Arctic settlement of Dikson, in the

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China, Russia singled out in new U.S. Arctic defense strategy

19 June 201926 June 2019 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments 1988 Arctic Cooperation Agreement, Arctic Council, climate change, Mike Pompeo, Northern Sea Route, The Northwest Passage

China and Russia are being singled out in the new U.S. Arctic defense strategy, echoing the increasing rhetoric from U.S.

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Russia unveils major seaport project for Arctic LNG

12 June 201912 June 2019 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments Arctic LNG-2, energy, gas, Gydan Peninsula, LNG, Northern Sea Route, Novatek, shipping, Utrennoye

On the desolate shores on peninsula Gydan comes the terminal that is to serve one of Russia’s biggest ever Arctic

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Northern Sea Route to get shipping boost from Dubai

7 June 2019 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments DP World, Dubai, Northern Sea Route, Rosatom, shipping

The developers of the Northern Sea Route team up with DP World, the global port operator based in the Arab

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