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Arctic Council creates new expert group on nuclear emergencies

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 11:16
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Two fatal accidents during the summer of 2019 was a wake-up call for radiation emergency authorities monitoring northern waters. On

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White Sea areas closed off for Russian weapons testing

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, December 9, 2019 at 11:39
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Russia’s new – and most advanced – nuclear powered submarine is one of the vessels continuing shootings. The West Arctic Sea

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Russian Navy 2019: Two new submarines, 23 new surface vessels and 480 new kinds of armament

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, December 6, 2019 at 10:57
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President Putin assembles his top military aides to discuss the development of the Navy and Northern Fleet. As the year

The Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority is requesting that the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs intervenes in the case of a sunken Russian submarine. (iStock)

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Norwegian outcry over sunken Russian sub tests

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, July 31, 2015 at 13:40 — Last Updated: Friday, July 31, 2015 at 13:43
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Researchers fear they might never see their samples taken near the sunken nuclear submarine “K-159”. A joint team of Norwegian and

A Swedish Navy fast-attack craft patrols in the the Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden, on October 18 2014. (Pontus Lundahl/AFP/Getty Images)

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Russia playing “psychological warfare” with Sweden says researcher

Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 at 19:04 — Last Updated: Thursday, November 20, 2014 at 21:29
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Submarines in the archipelago, fighter jets infringing Swedish airspace – it could all be part of a Russian strategy designed

Göranson shows an image of what he says are tracks of the submarine on the sea floor. (Frank Radosevich / Radio Sweden)

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Military confirms foreign sub violated Swedish waters

Radio Sweden
Posted: Friday, November 14, 2014 at 14:17 — Last Updated: Monday, November 17, 2014 at 21:35
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The Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces, Sverker Göranson, confirmed today that it was indeed a foreign mini-submarine that

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Bulava missile launched from Barents Sea by Russia

Trude Pettersen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, October 30, 2014 at 18:56 — Last Updated: Friday, October 31, 2014 at 20:22
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(Video of Bulava missile launch / Russian Defence Ministry) Russia’s strategic nuclear-powered submarine “Yury Dolgoruky” on Wednesday test-launched a Bulava

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Sweden military hunt in “new phase” with fewer vessels

Radio Sweden
Posted: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 at 14:42 — Last Updated: Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 19:12
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The Swedish military announced that its search for an underwater vessel in the southern Stockholm archipelago had entered a “new

The Swedish corvette HMS Visby under way on the Mysingen Bay on October 21, 2014 on their fifth day of searching for a suspected foreign vessel in the Stockholm archipelago. (Fredrik Sandberg/AFP/Getty Image)

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Sweden’s military is in touch with “something” in sub hunt: reports

Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 at 15:24 — Last Updated: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 at 19:26
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Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces, Sverker Göransson, confirmed Tuesday that the military’s underwater search in the Stockholm archipelago