What should be the names of Russia’s new doomsday weapons?
Russia President Vladimir Putin’s speech on the state of the nation yesterday appeared mind-blowing not only for the audience of
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Oil company Rosneft applies for new licence to drill along Laptev Sea coast
Oil company Rosneft intends to extend its Arctic drilling program in the remote Gulf of Khatanga. The state company wants
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Blog: As Yamal LNG launches in Arctic, both Russia and China try to claim success
Last Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin descended on the frigid Yamal Peninsula to participate in the opening ceremony for a
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Kremlin boots Nenets leader, appoints Moscow administrator
Russian regional leaders are having a distressful week as a wave of dismissals is running over the country. On Thursday,
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Russian General Prosecutor targets polluters in the Arctic
It is Russia’s Year of Ecology and environmental protection is higher on the country’s agency than ever before, also for
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Russia, Finland leaders talk defence, environment and possible US sanctions
Finnish President Sauli Niinistö and Russian President Vladimir Putin met for talks in eastern Finland on Thursday. The two leaders
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Details emerge on Putin’s visit to Finland
The Russian and Finnish presidents will meet next week at sites in eastern Finland redolent with the two countries’ shared history.
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Putin to visit Finland for its 100th anniversary
Vladimir Putin is set to visit the Finnish town of Savonlinna in late July in a trip arranged to mark
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Russia makes big cuts in Arctic spending
The revised funding scheme for the Russian Arctic program, which is to cover the period until year 2020, is 17 times lower than the original sum.
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Our future lays in the Arctic, says Putin in annual press conference
Russia’s power and opportunity grow as we expand into the Arctic, the president underlined in yesterday’s Direct Line press conference.
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Russian soldiers to collect waste at nuclear test site on Novaya Zemlya island
94 soldiers from the 12th Main Directorate fly to Novaya Zemlya to collect scrap metal at the nuclear weapons test
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Rosneft starts drilling of northernmost Russian Arctic well
«Lets start drilling», President Putin commands company leader Igor Sechin in a direct televised transmission between the Kremlin and the
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Niinistö plays down possible Trump-Putin meeting in Finland
Finland might host a meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, according to Finnish President Sauli Niinistö, but it won’t
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Blog: Ceci n’est pas une pipe: The surrealism of Russia’s three new Arctic pipelines
On January 18, Russia’s state owned gas company, Gazprom, opened a new pipeline stretching from the frozen Bovanenkovskoye gas field
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More Arctic gas for Europe as Russia opens new pipeline
Gazprom’s new Bovanenkovo-Ukhta 2 pipeline will boost daily deliveries from the Yamal Peninsula to 264 million cubic meters. The 1,265
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