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Russia plans to lay trans-Arctic fiber cable linking military installations

Starting in Severomorsk on the Kola Peninsula, the fiber-optic line will provide state-of-the art tele- and data communication to all military bases and installations across the Arctic to Vladivostok.
April 24, 2018

Lawyer: Spy-accused Frode Berg does not plead guilty, but admits being courier

Norwegian officials keep silent about the former border inspector’s alleged connections with the military intelligence service.
April 23, 2018

20 fighter jets played war game in Arctic sky

Pilots from the Russian Air Force and Northern Fleet together hunted down and destroyed simulated violators of Russian Arctic airspace.
April 18, 2018

Chechen flag waves at Russia’s new Arctic base

Special forces from Chechnya constituted a key part of the troops which conducted combat training at Franz Josef Land.
April 16, 2018

Chechen special forces drills anti-terror on nuclear icebreaker

Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov’s «Flying Squad» has arrived to Murmansk, ready for joint exercises with other services in the Arctic.
April 09, 2018

Arctic brigade kicks off winter drill in borderland

Russia’s 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade exercises winter warfare with drones and new weapons systems.
April 04, 2018

Northern Fleet drills submarine hunt in Barents Sea

March 30, 2018

Video: Ejection test of new nuke missile at Plesetsk

Russia’s scary Sarmat intercontinental ballistic nuclear missile is one step closer to being deployed.
March 30, 2018

Russian navy’s Arctic patrol vessels suffer delays of 3-4 years

March 25, 2018

10,000 people without heating at Arctic submarine base

Boiler at the central heating plant broke down in Zaozersk, the military town serving several of Russia’s nuclear powered submarines at the bases in Zapadnaya Litsa.
March 24, 2018

Northern Fleet submarine claims Russian record in undetected tracking of enemy sub

K-317 «Pantera» was tracking the foreign submarine for days, one of the crew members says in a TV-interview.
March 16, 2018

Norway says Russia's mock attack on Vardø radar troubles stability in the north

«Such behavior does not promote good neighborly relations.»
March 13, 2018

NATO subs kick off North Pole exercise

Under-ice navigation and torpedo exercises will last for the next five weeks.
March 08, 2018

5,000 troops train winter war in Arctic Norway

Among them are 350 soldiers from the USA and other allied countries.
March 07, 2018

Russian bombers simulated an attack against this radar on Norway's Barents Sea coast

Director of the Norwegian Intelligence Service discloses information about Russian offensive exercises against targets in northern Norway.
March 05, 2018

Russia's counterintelligence discovered Frode and 468 others

Spy hunters revealed an increase in foreign intelligence activity last year, President Putin said on Monday.
March 05, 2018

Russian Navy vessel completes 6 months voyage with shooting exercise outside coast of Norway

Landing vessel «Aleksandr Otrakovsky» tested its anti-aircraft artillery in the Norwegian Sea.
March 02, 2018

What should be the names of Russia’s new doomsday weapons?

The Russian President wants you to have a look at his new deadly weapons. And propose suitable names.
March 02, 2018

While Putin brags about new nuclear weapons, his Deputy Prime Minister admits near-disaster outside Murmansk in 2011

March 01, 2018

Murmansk builds military-patriotic amusement park

It is developed on an order from Minister of Defence Sergey Shoigu and will include a shooting range, go-kart track as well as a tank training ground.
February 28, 2018

They operate Russia's most advanced nuclear powered submarine, but are left without heating and hot water

Residents in the closed military town of Zaozersk on the Barents Sea coast are left in freezing cold as the municipal heating network is shut down.
February 19, 2018

Novaya Zemlya is priority in 2018, says Northern Fleet

Expeditionary forces will make comprehensive explorations of the country’s biggest Arctic archipelago.
February 15, 2018

Northern Fleet trains shooting with missile complex S-400 over Severodvinsk

The exercise scenario included enemy aircraft attack of the important navy city.
February 09, 2018

Stoltenberg: New START Treaty is fulfilled

Despite recent sabre-rattling, both the United States and Russia have met the limits set for the nuclear arsenal under the New START Treaty, which enters force today.
February 05, 2018

Whoa, they are talking again

First meeting between Russian and Norwegian defense ministries since 2013.
February 04, 2018

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