The first official trip by Norway’s new king, Haakon, included a visit to Jarfjord and the Norwegian conscripts guarding the ...
Russia’s nuclear submarine industry is a key target of the EU’s largest-ever sanctions package against Moscow. The measures ...
Twenty years ago—on 7 October 2006—journalist and writer Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead in the stairwell of her apartment ...
Since the start of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, Vitaly Orlov has acquired several shipyards, built seaports, and ...
The Ya Qing Hai Yang, which is heavily involved in shipments to Russia’s banned Arctic LNG industry, is awaiting orders in a ...
Military-style games involving families from all over Russia aim at 'strengthening traditional values and ties between ...
A military exercise on Russia’s remote Sedov archipelago has drawn attention to major damage inflicted on vulnerable Arctic ...
Political prisoners are people who put their own lives on the line in order to oppose the war. How will they feel about ...
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Only a few drifting icebergs could be seen as Russia, for the first time, sent naval vessels through the strait that separates Bolshevik Island from October Revolution Island.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry invites international experts from the other Arctic nations to a June 2022 conference on how to recover the sunken radioactive and hazardous objects dumped by the Soviet ...