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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.

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.

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.

An ambitious plan to knock down 400 shabby apartment blocks and build new ones was presented by Murmansk regional authorities on Friday.

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.

The fire on "Admiral Kuznetsov" at yard No. 35 started during welding work in one of the engine rooms.

The Federal Security Service claims the arrested man is a supporter of the Right Sector extremist organization.

President Putin assembles his top military aides to discuss the development of the Navy and Northern Fleet.

With weapons on the shoulders, infantry solders learn how to traverse Arctic borderlands with dogs.

The Tor-M2DT has been officially handed over units in the Northern Fleet’s motorized infantry units in Pechenga.