Blog – Whose Arctic security is it anyway?
The question of security in the Arctic has become more pronounced in the region of late. This is thought to
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Russia
Increase in NATO scrambled jets from Norway
With two F-16s in the air on Monday, the number of QRA (Quick Reaction Alert) to identify Russian military planes
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Are potential Arctic security threats eclipsing urgent action on climate? A new study makes its case
An over-emphasis on narratives around potential resource bonanzas and hard security issues in the Arctic should be recalibrated by policy
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Blog – To stop coronavirus, Arctic communities took matters into their own hands. Can it last?
Across the Arctic each summer, thousands of tourists and scientists descend upon the region’s villages, research stations, and glaciers. This
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Construction of new icebreaking tanker fleet underway amid looming crisis in Arctic LNG project
The Zvezda yard in Vladivostok will have plenty of complex Arctic shipbuilding to do over the next years. Not only
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Bering Sea ice at lowest extent in at least 5,500 years, study says
There is less sea ice in the Bering Sea now than at any time in at least 5,500 years. That’s
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Good Fences? Good Neighbours? The Diplomatic Travails of Norway and Russia
Compared with some of Russia’s other neighbours, the country’s border with Norway is relatively short, (approximately 196 kilometres), but from
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Russian navy conducts major manoeuvres near Alaska
The Russian navy conducted major war games near Alaska involving dozens of ships and aircraft, the military said Friday, the
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Moscow expells senior Norwegian diplomat
Ambassador Rune Resaland on Friday got the message from the Russian Foreign Ministry that one of his senior staff will
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Security strongmen take on key role in Russian Arctic policy
According to a decree signed by President Putin on the 25th August, the Security Council is to establish a special commission that
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Swedish military ramps up presence in Baltic Sea due to Russian activity
Sweden has ramped up its military readiness this week in the Baltic Sea and on Gotland in response to what
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Record-warm Arctic summer fatal to wild reindeer in Russia, say environmentalists
Temperature records are coming one after another across the Arctic. On the 15th August, Russian meteorologists measured 18,1° Celsius at Cape Sterligov
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MOSAiC international Arctic science expedition expedition reaches North Pole
An international science expedition reached the North Pole on Wednesday after project leaders noticed shrinking sea-ice conditions and “surprisingly loose”
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Russia’s Rosatomflot files lawsuits against shipyard as world’s most powerful icebreakers are notoriously delayed
Few details on the content of the lawsuits are made public, but Rosatomflot, the federal enterprise operating and maintaining the
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Norwegian police arrests citizen suspected of selling state secrets to Russia
The arrest happened at a restaurant in Oslo. « We have detained a man his 50s, suspected of sharing information
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