Security
The annual speech of President Putin’s to the Federal Security Service for the first time did not reveal the number of Russians and foreigners nabbed for espionage.
Surveillance of maritime traffic is key priority for the Northern Fleet’s UAV unit.
Oslo does not want the Russian Navy’s song and dance ensemble to participate in a Norwegian cultural festival.
Kremlin seeks to exploit any issue that can create split, said Lt. Gen. Morten Haga Lunde when presenting the Intelligence Service’s 2020 review of security threats to Norway.
Key law enforcement authorities of the Russian Arctic region joined forces in exercise onboard two retired nuclear-powered icebreakers docked in Kola Bay.
Two of Russia’w most advance radar systems are under building in the Kola Peninsula. They will complement similar systems in Novaya Zemlya and Arkhangelsk.
“We should expect development and testing of new, advanced weapons systems in the areas east of Norway. Several of these will have nuclear propulsion systems,” said Director of the Norwegian Intelligence Service, Lt. Gen. Morten Haga Lunde.
“As normal there are no evidence, just general speculations,” the Embassy writes in a statement to the Barents Observer.
A third ship for northern waters might be built by the Vyborg Yard outside St.Petersburg.
Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS) sees the announced missile shootings as a response to next month’s exercise Cold Response which takes place north of the Arctic Circle.
Two big naval vessels from the Northern Fleet trained combat against enemy aircrafts off the Norwegian coast.
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New fighter jets, surveillance aircraft, submarines, air defense systems and a significant boost in manpower is on its way to the Nordic country’s defense forces.
A former officer from the Headquarters of the Armed Forces in Northern Norway told about the surfacing submarine in a TV documentary by NRK about the Cold War.
MiG-31K fighter jets armed with the new Kinzhal air-launched ballistic missile based at Kola, Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya could in practice pose a threat it is not possible to defend against in the European Arctic, northern Scandinavia and North-Atlantic.
An ambitious plan to knock down 400 shabby apartment blocks and build new ones was presented by Murmansk regional authorities on Friday.
The rebuilt version of the passenger aircraft Tu-204/214 will be Russia’s equivalent to the U.S. built Boeing P-8 Poseidon that Norway, among others, will deploy for surveillance flights over the Barents- and Norwegian Seas.
U.S. troops will take part in Cold Response, the Norway-led winter drills, but with substantially fewer soldiers than originally planned.
As the country’s one and only vessel of the kind lies damaged by accident and fire at port in Murmansk, the President puts his eyes on a brand new project.
The church icon that serves as patron for Russia’s Navy sailors is visiting the Northern Fleet base towns in the Kola Peninsula.
The "Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky" will improve search- and rescue capabilities in Russia’s western Arctic region.
“Knyaz Vladimir”, the first upgraded Borey-A class submarine, will not be handed over to the navy by the end of 2019 as planned.
After the two previous 4th generation multi-purpose submarines experienced long delays in construction, Russia now seems to have gain speed at the shipyard in Severodvinsk.
It is the Norwegian Intelligence Service that on Friday reports about the disturbances.
Yunarmiya, the «youth army» established by the Russian Ministry of Defense, recruits more youngsters in the border towns of Nikel and Zapolyarny.
The fire on "Admiral Kuznetsov" at yard No. 35 started during welding work in one of the engine rooms.
The anti-aircraft missile system will over the next years be deployed in all the country’s Arctic divisions, Northern Fleet Head Commander Aleksandr Moiseev says.
The Federal Security Service claims the arrested man is a supporter of the Right Sector extremist organization.
Russia’s new - and most advanced - nuclear powered submarine is one of the vessels continuing shootings.
The Kinzhal missile was launched from a MiG-31K taking off from Olenegorsk airbase on the Kola Peninsula.
«USS Minnesota» takes part in the ongoing cat-and-mouse game between NATO and Russian subs in the Norwegian Sea.
With weapons on the shoulders, infantry solders learn how to traverse Arctic borderlands with dogs.
The decision to build one more office complex for the security service comes only three years after the Stalin-styled new headquarters opened.
President Putin assembles his top military aides to discuss the development of the Navy and Northern Fleet.
The Tsirkon scramjet-powered cruise missile is said to travel at a speed making it impossible to intercept by any known means.
