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Vardø-Kiberg

In Norway's northeast, locals started process to import Soviet-era tank from Russia’s Northern Fleet

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"We have declared a war on Pink salmon” Norway fights the invasive species in the Arctic.

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Kirkenes

"I just want Russians and Norwegians to be friends"

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Name list

Who are the North Russian men killed in Ukraine?

Northern Norway

HMS Queen Elizabeth carrier group sails north for NATO training

Sanctions

Washington bans Russia's main Arctic oil driller

New partners

Russian Arctic regions strengthen bonds with Beijing

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Norway under Russian pressure: Memory diplomacy as security policy

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War Resistance and Independent Journalism: Russian Journalists in Exile

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Climate change:

Methane beneath the Greenland ice sheet to intensify climate warming, scientists warn. A unique project to access the ice-sheet bed hopes to expose the scale of the danger.

Northern Fleet

Russia kicks off trans-Arctic navy exercise

Navigation freedom

American coast guard vessel is sailing into Russian Arctic waters. Almost at same time, Moscow launches naval exercise in the area

1993-2023

Lavrov formally withdraws Russia from Barents cooperation

Podcasts

Norway’s Foreign Ministry says no to Russian tourist charters to Svalbard

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Opinions

Thomas Nilsen

Criminalizing journalism to make us silent doesn’t works

Brig Gen Edward Vaughan

Agile, postured, ready with Allies and partners in the Arctic

Austin Felter

U.S. Arctic Insecurity: It’s time for a new strategy

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"Ivan Gren"

Warship arrives in Arkhangelsk on propaganda tour

Murmansk-Kirkenes

Suspected drunk driver crashes with cross-border minibus, leaving five killed

Novaya Zemlya

Norwegians fear radiation as Russia prolongs test-window for Burevestnik missile

Sanctions

Americans attack Russian Arctic: new sanctions take aim at LNG and mining

From midnight

Finland bans entry of Russian cars

Domestic violence

“Women's rights in Russia are in a catastrophic state.” How war changes the lives of women in Russia

Tighter sanctions

Norway needs time to consider entry ban to Russian vehicles

Strained occupant

As Ukrainian counter-attacks intensify, Murmansk steps up investments in occupied town Primorsk

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Navy Day Parade in Barentsburg 2023

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“The trust is gone” - tensions on the rise in Norway after restrictions for Russian fishing vessels.

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USS Florida

US Navy brings massive fire power to Tromsø

Global Hawk

NATO drone on first time mission over Finland

Sanctions

Norway’s Foreign Ministry says no to Russian tourist charters to Svalbard

Nagurskoye

One month after huge Orthodox cross popped up in Svalbard, Russian bishop erects a similar holy landmark in Franz Josef Land

Lapland

With northern focus, Finland applies EU funding to improve military mobility

"Aleksei Kosygin"

Ahead of meeting with Kim Jong Un, Putin praises Soviet Politburo leader at naming ceremony for Arctic tankers

“Bye-bye plastic!” Big ocean clean-up in Tromsø. Divers comb the seabed in search of rubbish.

Arctic warriors

More indigenous men from Russian Arctic are killed in Moscow's war of aggression

Siberia

Mikhail sentenced to five years in jail for writing the truth

repression

How the state crushed the protest movement in the Arkhangelsk region

surprising impacts

Retreating sea ice in Arctic affecting zooplankton behaviour

Restart for working groups

Arctic Council charting way forward to resume work says Norwegian SAO

Kola Bay

Projected LNG plant in Murmansk now on Putin's table

war town

School year in Pechenga starts with a greeting to warriors in Ukraine

"Graceful"

Putin's yacht escaped through Northern Sea Route. Almost at the same time, route operator Rosatom closed down its online ship tracker

Arctic drilling

Norwegian oilmen lay out a picture of Svalbard

K-159

20 years on, radiation fear from wreck of nuclear sub remains

War crimes

WANTED by Kyiv: war criminals from the Russian Arctic border town of Zapolyarny

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Barents Must-Reads

How Norway’s new P-8 Poseidon will counter Russia’s submarine threat in Arctic waters

As Finland and Sweden join NATO, Norfolk command beefs up readiness in alliance’s northern flank

Longread

Miners hunting for metals to battery cars threaten Sámi reindeer herders' homeland

Norway's celebration of Svalbard Treaty was followed by ardent and coordinated response from Moscow media

Photo story

Pasvik, the river that tells the High North

On patrol along its Arctic coast, Norway's relation with Russia is challenged between deterrence and reassurance

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"Killers"

Kremlin propagandist Maria Zakharova hits out at Norway: "Real zoocide"

Starting Monday

Russian inner bastion exercise overlaps into Norwegian economic zone

"Young generations are waking up. They are worried as they realize something important could be gone". Karelian language revival project gets more funding in Finland.

Finnair starts cross-border winter flights between destinations above Arctic Circle

High North - Higher Tensions

"High time to scrap self-imposed restrictions," says former Norwegian Commander. This week's flight map shows why

Gigantic Russian flag unveiled in the Arctic Ocean. “It's a sign of dominance and defiance”, geopolitics professor explains.

Child warriors

Holiday camp season is coming to end. For many Russian kids, it has been a summer with weapons training and war propaganda

Almost one million

Despite restrictions, Finland sees 20 times higher traffic with Russia than Norway's liberal border

Newsroom

Olesia is new journalist in the Barents Observer

Icy encounter

French cruise ship makes rendezvous with Russian nuclear icebreaker near North Pole

Olenya Air Base

Russia relocates Tu-22M3 bombers to Kola Peninsula after drone attack

Denis Sharonov

“I was one way or another a silent participant in that process”. Interview with the Russia's Komi region minister, who asked for political asylum in the USA.

"Near-Arctic state"

China's icebreaker Xuelong-2 is sailing to the North Pole

Northern Fleet

Wrecked by Ukrainian drone, Polish-built landing ship Olenegorsky Gornyak is placed in a dry dock with large hole in its hull

Sør-Varanger

Another illegal crossing, Norway considers new means at Europe’s last unbarred border with Russia

Gydan

New production platform arrives in Utrenneye. It is part of Russia's big push into Arctic LNG

Lovozero

“We’re afraid to walk the streets”. The participants of the double murder in Lovozero are out of jail thanks to the war in Ukraine

Pyramiden

Bishop Iyakov, who backs Putin’s war, raised giant cross at Svalbard without Norway’s knowledge

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Barents Sea

Defiant Norwegian fishermen unwilling to leave impact areas for Russian missiles

Novaya Zemlya

After blaming West for waging a proxy war on Russia, Shoigu went to Arctic nuclear test site

Oil shipments

A month after they set out on Arctic voyage, two Russian oil tankers still battle with sea-ice

20 warships

Northern Fleet kicks off major Barents Sea command and staff exercise

Svalbard

Russian missiles jeopardize Norwegian Arctic SAR response

Finnmark

Norway outlines powerful electrification of its North

Vardø-Kiberg

In Norway's northeast, locals started process to import Soviet-era tank from Russia’s Northern Fleet

"Here starts a hostile and unfriendly world." Top Murmansk clergyman Mitrofan visits Boris and Gleb Church on border to Norway

"Mikhail Somov"

After ten days aground in Franz Josef Land, researchers are evacuated from wrecked ship

Barents Sea

Northern Fleet with missiles warnings north and south of Bear Island

"Olenegorsky Gornyak"

Northern Fleet ship seriously damaged in drone attack

Escalation

Moscow first called Oslo "unfriendly." Now, it has become "very unfriendly"

Six killed

Suspect of mass murder fought in Ukraine

"Thanks to all for learning how to save our beautiful northern nature". "The Clean Arctic” project closes in Murmansk.

Over Lake Inari

Sweden flies first time intelligence mission close to Kola Peninsula

"Severny Polyus-41"

Ship sails 6,000 km to deliver goods and new crew to Russia's North Pole platform

Climate Crisis

Polar heat record. July average above 10°C

Militar flags

Russian diplomat staged Navy Parade at Norway’s Svalbard archipelago

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