North Pacific, Nordic partnerships and Canada’s Arctic Foreign Policy
International cooperation is taking center stage in Canada’s evolving Arctic strategy, with its newly released Arctic foreign policy emphasizing links
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Russia
Lights are turned off in Belokamenka in Arctic Russia
Novatek’s LNG construction center outside Murmansk is left in the dark as contractors and subcontractors abandon the plant. There used
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Oslo and Moscow safeguard fishery cooperation
Fifty years of fishery cooperation in the Barents Sea could collapse if Norway closes all its seaports for Russian fishermen,
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Beijing and Moscow tune in for more Arctic shipping
Only few days after a Chinese bulk carrier destroyed two cables in the Baltic Sea in what appears as an
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Finland’s government parties want to keep eastern border closed
The four parties in Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s (NCP) coalition government want to keep Finland’s border crossings with Russia closed,
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UK targets oil tankers in bid to strike Kremlin’s war machine
Several of the 30 tankers that this week were added to London’s sanction list have shipped Russian oil across the
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Norwegian police makes arrest in Russia-related espionage
By Thomas Nilsen, Atle Staalesen A 27 years old is arrested by the Police Security Service (PST) in Oslo accused of espionage.
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Russia faces unprecedented heat as global warming shifts air currents nationwide
By Elizaveta Vereykina Russia’s main meteorological service reports about unusually high temperatures across the country. “Temperatures are very high all over
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35,000-year-old sabre-toothed kitten found preserved in Arctic Russia
A sabre-toothed kitten more than 35,000 years old has been found preserved in the Siberian permafrost, with the scientists behind
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Western sanctions hinder modernisation of Russia’s largest warship
Modernisation of the nuclear-powered battle cruiser Admiral Nakhimov is far behind schedule as Russia itself need to produce auxiliary systems. Work has
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Russia to scrap multilateral nuclear environmental agreement
The Russian Government intends withdraw from the landmark agreement with the European Union and Norway that since 2003 has paved
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Russia says it has no illusions about Trump, will robustly defend its interests
By Guy Faulconbridge, Andrew Osborn and Dmitry Antonov The Kremlin reacted cautiously on Wednesday after Donald Trump was elected U.S.
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OPINION: It’s high time to close Russia’s Consulate General in Kirkenes
Conventional wisdom holds that diplomatic channels are the last you should close in times of tensions. Up north, where small-state
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Cod quotas lowered for the fourth year in a row
Russia and Norway have reached a deal for the 2025 fish quotas in northern waters. They do not meet in
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Construction begins on a “new flagship of Russian polar research”
By Elizaveta Vereykina On 29 October, an official ceremony was held at the Admiralty shipyards in St Petersburg to start the
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