Gydan Peninsula

First plane lands in Novatek's new Arctic airport

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Repression by Law: Independent media as an enemy of the state

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The great patriotic battle for the young minds

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Arctic renewables

The ice cold Arctic winds of Berlevåg might propel the world towards a great green shift

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Pyramiden - A Soviet ghost town in Arctic Norway

Near border to Norway

Russia's new landing ship sails into Pechenga Bay, takes on board a battalion of special operations troops

Geneva Summit

On Putin-Biden agenda: the Northern Sea Route

Norway, Russia celebrates 25 years of successful nuclear safety cooperation, but NGOs worried about transparency

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Rockslides in the Arctic: Why do we care?

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Seabirds ring the alarm

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Pollutants in ocean’s giants

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Expansive industry

A new Arctic oil region emerges on the banks of the Tazov Bay

Climate crisis

"Arctic drilling is a violation of human rights"

Komi Republic

The governor-epidemiologist who fell ill with COVID

Arctic oil

Rigs are sailing north for drilling in Russian Arctic waters

Podcasts

Under mounting pressure from renewables, Russia's top oilman says new Arctic giga-project will produce "green barrels"

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Opinions

Alina Bykova and Pavel Sulyandziga

A year after Arctic fuel spill, Norilsk Nickel continues to ignore Indigenous critics

Gleb Yarovoy

Is there a better future for Nordic-Russian cross-border cooperation?


Anita Parlow

Trust and paradox: The United States and Russia in the Arctic

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COVID demographics

Russia’s population decline more than doubles in 2020

Karelia

Green light for Russia’s first new pulp and paper mill in 40 years

Arctic shipping

Ships set out on trans-Arctic voyage as spring comes to Northern Sea Route

11,2% vaccinated

COVID-19 infections are increasing in Northwest Russia

atomflot

Turkish yard wins bid to build nuclear icebreaker dock

Navalny crackdown

"I will continue to fight, and no court verdict can stop me"

Giga-projects

Moscow wants new connection to Arctic coast, revives plans for a railway to Sabetta

snowflake

Teriberka gets Russia’s second Arctic research station powered by renewables

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Kolva river oil spill, May 2021

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With threats looming, Nordic countries strengthen defense cooperation

Ban on salmon fishing on River Teno is affecting local economy and traditional livelihoods

North Swedish battery gigafactory expands before production start

Norway offers oil firms 70 new Barents Sea exploration blocks

northern finland

Oulu named European Capital of Culture 2026

ecology

First real green spring comes to Nikel

Arctic oil spill

Bewilderment on the shores of great Pechora

Tundra digging

Arctic miners get financing for one of world's biggest palladium projects

Vostok Oil

Under mounting pressure from renewables, Russia's top oilman says new Arctic giga-project will produce "green barrels"

Arctic train

World's northernmost railway to carry 52 million tons of petro products

yakutia

Russia brings back largest global uranium project

Northern Fleet

20 warships sail out for new Barents Sea exercise

Lepse

A nuclear ghost from Murmansk’s Soviet past is finally emptied

increased risks

Norway & Russia update agreement to avoid dangerous aircraft, warship encounters

Novaya Zemlya

12th Directorate beefs up support facilities at nuclear test site

VTimes

How to scientifically squeeze oil out of ice

Komi spills

Between life and oil

Independent Russian news site VTimes shuts down following ‘Foreign Agent’ labeling

80° North

World's northernmost swimming pool opens in Alexandra Land

Barents Must-Reads

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

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

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Pasvik, the river that tells the High North

Climate change is about to divide Norway’s largest Arctic island into two

Russia presents a grandiose 5-year plan for the Arctic

exercise barents

Emergency cooperation gets priority amid military buildup and COVID crisis

Exercise Formidable Shield

NATO ships with missile defence drill off northern Norway

Russian tech

New Yamal LNG plant is Made in Russia. It comes more than year after schedule

60 km from Norway

Russia’s most advanced cruise missile nuclear sub arrives at Zapadnaya Litsa

Energy transition

Natural gas from Barents Sea could find a future in ammonia

Arctic mining

As iron ore prices surge, Severstal starts development of new mine in Kola Peninsula

Kola Peninsula to get radioactive waste from southern Russia

Russia bans unauthorized ‘foreign influence’ educational activities

Norilsk could become Russia's official Arctic capital

Norwegian oilmen are ready to drill along border to Russia

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World’s largest LNG construction yard taking shape in Belokamenka

Megafon halts trans-Arctic cable project Arctic Connect

Technologies to slow climate change could give 20% population growth in northern Sweden

European parliamentarians demand end to investment in Russian gas project

Yevgeny's silent protest against oil spills was repressed by police

Less aircraft in cross-border Arctic Challenge Exercise

Covid-19 spikes among younger age groups in Kiruna

Russia allows tourists with hotel bookings to stay up to 6 months

Vostok Oil

Here comes Russia's biggest Arctic oil terminal

Russia wants to exempt state media from ‘Foreign Agent’ scrutiny

Tackling dumped nuclear waste gets priority in Russia’s Arctic Council leadership

Arctic energy

Gazprom's biggest Arctic field will fuel new petrochemical plant

"Pyotr Velikiy"

Battlecruiser leads Barents Sea exercise

154 new cases

Hammerfest, Norway sees sharp spike in cases of COVID-19

Yury Dmitriev

Jailed Russian historian receives Sakharov Freedom Award

Kilpisjärvi

No Arctic Railway, you said? Let's make our own

Political repression

Opposition leader fears father will end his life in north Russian prison

Komsomolets

Expedition underway to check leakages from reactor and two nukes on Arctic seabed

Reykjavik

Return to form for Arctic Council as Russia assumes leadership from Iceland

Inside Arctic Circle

Norway in joint training with B-52 up north

Climate crisis

The Arctic leaders that sit down to discuss climate must abandon plans for oil drilling

27 °C in Naryan-Mar

Massive heatwave across northern Russia as Moscow takes chair of Arctic Council

With U.S. climate drama behind them, can the Arctic Council turn the page in Reykjavik?

Putin is ready to "decarbonise Europe". With LNG from the Arctic

7,000 troops

Northern Finland to see biggest military exercise of the year

Environment

Nornickel has changed positively, says Taimyr indigenous group

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