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

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

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History and truth

The Russian Ministry of Defense is building a war memorial in Northern Norway

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The Governor of Murmansk will have to give up mansion on Spanish riviera

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Polar bear shot dead after attacking tourist

Murmansk Governor Andrei Chibis makes visit to occupied Ukrainian land

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Sunday

Russian subs outside Norway

New rules

Haavisto: Finland to limit tourist visas for Russians

Murmansk

Pro-war ‘Z’ stickers on Norway’s diplomatic cars

La Familia

The Patrushev Family lays heavy hand on Arctic energy

Podcasts

Northern Fleet sabotage-reconnaissance group eliminated, claims Ukraine Intelligence Agency

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Opinions

Markku Heikkilä

How Nordic countries could act to save Arctic co-operation

Barry Scott Zellen

The world needs the Arctic Council now more than ever

Jan Dusik

Arctic oil and gas: the wrong solution to the world’s energy crisis

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Storskog-Borisoglebsk

Border traffic more than doubled after Russia relaxed Covid restrictions

NATO's new northern flank

War games in boreal forest spotlights changing security architecture of the North

war support

Russian Arctic governors on sanction list

Sámi Parliament pleased about latest decision by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Deep crisis looms, but here comes Russia's biggest ever Arctic oil project

New Russian war monument near border to Norway praises battle and aggression in Ukraine

Security Council:

Murmansk Transport Hub gets status as strategic important

Novaya Gazeta’s Norwegian domain NO magazine blocked

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  • "Stop Putin, Don't Bomb Ukraine," reads the sign as some 150 people marched towards the border river Pasvik. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
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  • The Norwegian- Russian border follows the deepest part of the Pasvik river. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
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  • Russia is on the other side of the frozen river. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
  • Some 150 people participated in the protest march. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
  • Protest against Putin's war on Ukraine outside Russia's Consulate General in Kirkenes. Photo: Thomas Nilsen

Protesting war, supporting Ukraine

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The Narvik-China trade route

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Murmansk offers 100,000 rubles cash in recruitment campaign for Ukraine war

Russian Arctic nickel might be shipped to Africa

Military-patriotic Yunarmiya sanctioned by the EU

The two nuclear subs sailing to St. Petersburg surfaced northwest of Haakonsvern naval base

Air France launches flights to three destinations above the Arctic Circle

Home alone

No foreign companions as Gazprom prepares well drilling in Arctic waters

Fighting the regime

Leading Putin-critics from Arkhangelsk are wanted by police

Severodvinsk

First Baltic Sea voyage for Russia’s 4th generation multi-purpose sub

war

Northern Fleet sabotage-reconnaissance group eliminated, claims Ukraine Intelligence Agency

censorship

Repressive authorities block Indigenous Russia site

Russia's liberal Dozhd TV returns to the air after wartime crackdown

Nickel-tycoon Vladimir Potanin has big plan for Arctic hub Dudinka

Russia eases border restrictions, but crossings to Finland still restricted

1,658 CCTV cameras

Murmansk gets comprehensive facial-recognition surveillance system

More Russian GPS jamming than ever across border to Norway

Two aging oil tankers are breaking their way through Arctic sea-ice

World’s longest nuclear submarine handed over to the Russian Navy

Army seeks more north Russian men for Ukraine war

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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

Photo story

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

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climate crisis

Arctic warming four times faster than thought, says study

Who owns what?

Russia lawmakers move to classify real estate ownership data

Svalbard

Norwegian transporters bring goods to Russian coal-miners

Rosneft announces big oil finding in icy Pechora Sea

Duma speaker instructs Foreign Affairs Committee to review Barents Sea delimitation treaty

Tsirkon-armed Russian frigate sails coast of Norway

Nornickel and Rusal start merger talks

Russia to lift COVID-19 restrictions on land borders by mid-July

war censorship

Siberian journalist jailed for military ‘Fakes’ moved to psychiatric care

200th Motorized Rifle Brigade sends mixed volunteer battalion to Ukraine war

Ivan Fedotov

Russian National Team ice hockey goalie with Finnish citizenship is forced into military service in remote North

Climate crisis

Warmest June ever at Svalbard

No more taxfree alcohol

Import ban on Putinka and other Russian vodka

German icebreaker leaves for Arctic ice research trip

Project to educate Finnish students about Sami needs to be permanent: Youth Council

SIDA

Russia kicks out Sweden’s development agency

Midnight Sun heat wave

Siberia

Humans dated back to the Arctic for over 40,000 years

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Lapland

Utsjoki businesses and fishers are adapting to the second year of salmon fishing ban

Top Russian legislators question Norwegian sovereignty over Svalbard

Pro-Russian hacker group says it attacked Norway

Gadzhievo

The U.S Los Angeles-class sub that was redesigned to a Russian Delta has lost its "Z"

Relief effort

Aid on the way: Murmansk sends toilet paper, underpants, uniforms to warriors in Ukraine

Sevmorput

Sails Europe-Asia Arctic route loaded at one-tenth of capacity

Zapolyarny

Satellite images reveal construction of Russian radar to track stealthy F-35

Russia slashes environmental protections as war rages, economic crisis looms

Nikolai Patrushev: border to Nordic countries must be strengthened

Pyhäjoki

Rosatom wants to get back its investment in Finnish not-to-be-built NPP

Korpfjell

First illegal border crossing from Russia to Norway since 2015

Viktor Vorobyev

A lonely politician from the Russian North speaks up against war

Russian occupiers

Amid Moscow's bloody onslaught, north Russian leader says he is ready to rebuild occupied land

Igor Sechin

We are building a 'Noah's Ark' in the Arctic, says Russia's most powerful oil company leader

Stopped at border:

Russia wants Barentsburg food supplies shipped via mainland Norway

Expanding NATO:

Norwegian military vehicles take new transit corridor via Finnish Lapland

Moving east

As Russia turns towards Asia, this year's first vessel heads east on Northern Sea Route

The U.S attack submarine in Russian Navy base Gadzhievo has been repainted to a Russian sub carrying a "Z"

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