Seventeen new buildings, power generation stations and a fresh water well are under construction in Cape Schmidt, the east Arctic Navy base.

It used to be civilian rescue services and the Coast Guard which represented Russia in the joint search and rescue drills in the Barents Sea. This year, it was the powerful Northern Fleet. It is a positive development, the Norwegians say.

For the first time in many years, a Typhoon submarine made a short port call to a base on the Kola Peninsula this weekend. Russian media says next stop is St. Petersburg.

The powerful Northern Fleet vessel engages in shooting exercises off the coast of the Kola Peninsula.

Privately owned property and related real estate can from now on be seized for needs of the state.

When visiting Svalbard Moscow said it was “provocative”, but all was peaceful when the same lawmakers on Thursday walked all the way to Russia’s borderline with Norway.

On the eve of Victory Day May 9th, more than 20 vessels sail out for combat training in the Barents Sea at the same time as NATO vessels are on exercise outside Northern Norway.

The Northern Fleet's new "Belgorod" research sub for Arctic waters will be world’s largest. To be put on water in Severodvinsk next year.

95 percent of the soldiers with the Northern Fleet are now on professional contracts, following a year when Russia increased defense spendings by 5.4%.

Leader of the regional party office in Murmansk, Andrey Kapitonov, was recruited by Russian agents as part of a plot involving liberal Parnas and the Norwegian secret police. Then it all backfired on the Russian security service.