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Seven Russian nuclear-powered icebreakers are in the first days of January crushing ice along the western sector of the Northern Sea Route and the outlets of the rivers Ob and Yenisei.

Foreign military vessels are now required to notify Russia through diplomatic channels three months in advance before sailing north of the Siberia coast between Europe and Asia.

With a Soviet-era navy flag and the Russian national navy flag at the mast, Russian officials made their own Navy Day Parade in Norwegian waters at Barentsburg on July 31.

The new Arctic research station has been moored to a 42 square kilometer big ice floe in remote Arctic waters and is now drifting westwards with the sea-ice.

Iceberg, the design bureau responsible for Russia’s fleet of nuclear-powered icebreakers, has unveiled plans for a new series of special purpose vessels to help develop the Arctic regions.

Two milestones for Russia’s first icebreaker of the giant Leader-class are reached in August: The first reactor pressure vessel is ready and contract for metal to the bow is signed.

Russia's newly adopted Marine Doctrine has a high stress on Arctic waters and the shelf north of the country's 200 mile Exclusive Economic Zone.

Dilemma solved: Two containers with food supplies that were stopped on the land border to Norway are now underway towards Svalbard.

Human traces on reindeer antlers suggest that humans have been in the Arctic for over 40,000 years.

The Russian Embassy in Oslo warns of a humanitarian emergency at the country’s mining society on Svalbard this coming winter if Norway doesn’t open its land border at Storskog for two containers with seven tons of food supplies from Murmansk.

The seven western countries on the Arctic Council said Wednesday they will resume work together on some of the forum’s projects, but without Russia.

May 28 came with more heat than any day last year at the airport in Longyearbyen, the world's northernmost with scheduled public flights.