More from: Security

Russia exercises long-range radio-electronic warfare on Kola

The Northern Fleet's Center of Radio-Electronic Warfare has rolled out and tested its Murmansk-BN complex which are designed to suppress enemy radio signals at distances of up to 5,000 kilometers.
November 04, 2020

Criss-cross voyage outside Scottish airbase comes to an end, Norwegian Sea next destination for Russian warship

The Russian destroyer "Severomorsk" will exercise submarine hunt and defence against air attacks outside Norway later this week.
November 02, 2020

Northern Fleet makes ready for long-range test of Tsirkon hypersonic missile

From the Russian sector of the Barents Sea, the new missile can reach targets in the Norwegian Sea in about 10 minutes after launch if the Northern Fleet chose to activate its Bastion defence concept.
November 02, 2020

How a Barents Observer story is misused by troll media to sham a Norwegian "intrusion" into the Russian Arctic

Is really KV Svalbard's voyage far north of Siberia happening without informing Russia and as a deliberated military provocation on behalf of the United States?
October 30, 2020

Quicker internet comes to Novaya Zemlya

Servicemen in the remote and militarized Arctic archipelago have reason to rejoice as they get smoother access the world wide web.
October 26, 2020

Former Norwegian Consulate turned into Big Brother surveillance center

The city’s new video analytic management center, aimed at improving street security, will coordinate facial recognition technology for law enforcement agencies.
October 23, 2020

First nuclear submarine will be museum in St. Petersburg, not next to Lenin in Murmansk as planned

A decision is taken to place K-3 "Leninsky Komsomol" on exhibit at the coming Museum of Navy Glory in Kronstadt outside St. Petersburg.
October 23, 2020

U.S. warship returns to Barents Sea

The destroyer's return to the Arctic marks the third time this year that U.S. Navy surface ships have operated in the Barents Sea.
October 20, 2020

Sweden to re-establish northern regiment, fears armed attack

"Sweden will be affected if crisis or an armed conflict arises in our neighbourhood. An armed attack against Sweden cannot be ruled out,” said Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist as he presented the defence bill for the next five-years period.
October 17, 2020

Moscow signals it will make national security a priority in Arctic Council

"Certain NATO members, among them the USA, try to restrict Russia's activities in the Arctic," says top security strongman Dmitry Medvedev and makes clear that issues of national security will be part of his country's upcoming chairmanship priorities in the Arctic Council.
October 14, 2020

Norway blames Russia for cyber attack

The email system at the Norwegian Parliament was hacked on August 24. Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide now points the finger of blame on Russia.
October 13, 2020

Northern Fleet frigate test-launched hypersonic cruise missile across the Kola Peninsula

The Tsirkon missile was launched from the White Sea, hit a naval target in the Barents Sea, and reached a speed of Mach 8.
October 07, 2020

Old nuclear sub gets new life at Nerpa shipyard

The Victor-III class submarine Tambov is expected to start new sea trials in 2021 after six years of repair and modernization.
October 05, 2020

Military research ship returns after months on secret Arctic mission

The ship "Akademik Aleksandrov" is closely linked with testing of Russia's disruptive nuclear-powered underwater drone and the top-secret Harmony system of underwater sensors.
September 30, 2020

It is time to strengthen Nordic security, say ministers as they sign landmark defense deal

The defense ministers of Finland, Norway and Sweden meet in the far northern military base of Porsangmoen to sign an agreement that is to bolster Nordic cooperation.
September 24, 2020

Arctic marines train helicopter jump

The parachuting soldiers serve with the 61st Naval Infantry Brigade and the 200th Motorized Infantry Brigade, both based in Russia's borderland to Norway.
September 21, 2020

Russian bomb planes make 25 hours record-long Arctic flight

The 20,000 km long flight took place from the Engels air base in southern Russia, via the Barents Sea to the central part of the Arctic Ocean, over the Northern Sea Route towards the Pacific with return over Siberia back to the airport.
September 19, 2020

NATO’s new Atlantic command to keep watch over the European Arctic

NATO’s new U.S.-based Atlantic Command was declared operational in a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Norfolk, Virginia on Thursday, underlying the alliance’s efforts to secure its lines of communications in the North Atlantic and the European Arctic amid growing Russian presence in the region.
September 18, 2020

Experts warn of potentially ‘deadly’ great power games in the Arctic

The joint U.S., U.K., Norwegian and Danish exercise off Russia’s coast in the Barents Sea is the latest example of rapidly growing military tensions in the Arctic, experts say, warning of potential dangers of great power rivalry in the region.
September 16, 2020

Increase in NATO scrambled jets from Norway

With two F-16s in the air on Monday, the number of QRA (Quick Reaction Alert) to identify Russian military planes in the north has already passed the 2019 count.
September 14, 2020

London calling to the faraway north, leads largest NATO task force into the Barents Sea since last Cold War

More than 1,200 military personnel, four warships and numerous aircraft took part in the four-nation Barents Sea mission led by the British Navy.
September 11, 2020

In a controversial move, Norway sails frigate into Russian economic zone together with U.K. and U.S. navy ships

This is the first time since the 90ties NATO surface warships are conducting maritime security operations inside the Russian exclusive economic zone in the Barents Sea without participating Northern Fleet ships.
September 08, 2020

Norwegian aircraft was intercepted in Barents Sea, media reports

But the Norwegian military underlines that the encounter between its Р-3С Orion and the Russian MiG-31 was a regular identification procedure and nothing out of the ordinary.
August 28, 2020

Moscow expells senior Norwegian diplomat

The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday summoned the Norwegian Ambassador to inform about the expulsion of a senior diplomat.
August 28, 2020

Security strongmen take on key role in Russian Arctic policy

The Russian Security Council is given an expanded position in the management of national interests in the Arctic.
August 26, 2020

Pages