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Russia’s puts ban sailings around Novaya Zemlya for a ten days period and in the Barents Sea from now and until Sunday.
Details from a Defense Ministry report show that Moscow is not happy with Norway’s attempt to establish absolute national jurisdiction over Svalbard and its shelf.
«... will give us more soldiers ready for combat on shorter notice,» says Minister of Defense Ine Eriksen Søreide.
Since July, Russia’s strategic nuclear force is reduced by 204 warheads. In the north, though, no reduction is seen.
For locals in Vardø, a football match on TV can have 44 players, if possible at all to watch the choppy images.
«KNM Helge Ingstad» sails to Longyearbyen to show presence and ensure Norway’s sovereignty of the Arctic archipelago.
From the Baltic to the Barents Sea, to the far eastern Arctic base of Kotelny - lethal fire power is in the air.
Ballistic missile RS-24 Yars with dummy nuclear warheads crossed the Arctic hemisphere and hit the target at Kamchatka.
Russia’s war games in the north continues with cruise missiles flying up to 400 kilometers.
Locals in nearby Norwegian settlements report sounds of massive bombardment as more than 600 soldiers from Russian Arctic forces engage in an exercise parallel to the Zapad-2017.
Evacuations triggered by bomb threats across Murmansk on Tuesday.
Coast guard vessel «Polyarnaya Zvezda» sails 5,300 nautical miles in its first major patrol voyage along Russia’s Arctic coast.
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With battle cruiser «Pyotr Veliky» in the lead, a big group of Northern Fleet ships unfold a grand exercise near the border to Norway.
Navy vessels put ashore a group of Arctic soldiers at Cape Chelyuskin, 77° North.
Finland’s military is taking part in Sweden’s Aurora 2017 military exercises, which simulate an attack on the Nordic country and the response of forces from nine countries.
Russia’s Northern Fleet continues its comprehensive Arctic voyage with a string of exercises on the closed and militarized archipelago of Novaya Zemlya.
The «Ilya Muromets» will set course towards Russia’s northern Navy base of Severomorsk in the course of fall.
Only half a year after construction started, Russian Head Navy Commander Vladimir Korolyov greeted the first students at the new Nakhimov naval school in Murmansk.
Over 40 vessels have left port for a series of tactical exercises in the Barents Sea.
The warships will be more heavily armed than any other surface vessels in the Russian Navy.
Russia’s Arctic Brigade played a key role as Northern Fleet vessels, Air Force units, paratroopers and special purpose forces unfolded a major exercise on the banks of the Yenisey river.
Remember the huge circular impact zone in the forest outside Arkhangelsk last August? Well, now it is confirmed to be the first test launch of Russia’s new Yars-M intercontinental ballistic missile.
The Northern Fleet has released video of the Kalibr missile launch from the nuclear-powered submarine «Severodvinsk».
For the sixth year in a row, the Navy shows muscles along the Northern Sea Route. First port calls are Dikson and Dudinka.
The military-patriotic movement Yunarmiya now totals more than 140,000 youngsters. Many of them are from the Russian North.
There are new dangers and threats arising, the security document warns.
The Soviet and British soldiers who lost their lives on the Fisheman’s (Rybachi) Peninsula were honored by two countries’ military representatives.
It will include about 50 vessels and is held as a preparatory phase to the upcoming «Zapad-2017» drills.
The world's largest nuclear-powered submarine on northbound voyage outside the coast of Norway.
Returning from Naval Parade in St. Petersburg, the two largest nuclear powered vessels of the Northern Fleet will soon again appear in Scandinavian waters.
"Ulyanovsk" will be armed with eight cruise missile launchers and ten torpedo tubes.
«Of course, this is also a show of force to Norway, Germany, Sweden, Poland and some other countries,» says Russian commentator.
Nuclear safety expert Nils Bøhmer says the reactors on board the Typhoon submarine now sailing along the coast of Norway towards St. Petersburg are of 40 years old design.