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Russian airborne forces are preparing exercises close to the North Pole. During the preparations instructors and dog teams plan to land at Longyearbyen airport on Svalbard.

Russia has 185 strategic warheads more than limited by the New START agreement. That is nearly the number on-board the Northern fleet’s two Borei-class submarines.

“What the world doesn’t need right now are more remotely located radioactive sources that could be stolen by terrorists and used in dirty-bombs,” says Nuclear Physicist Nils Bøhmer.

Russia’s newest frigate “Admiral Essen”, built for the Black Sea Fleet, is on its way the Barents Sea for state tests.

The Northern Fleet’s main submarine base at Gadzhievo gets its berths ready for new vessels and its social infrastructure prepared for new crews.

Two nuclear-powered submarines have arrived in the Beaufort Sea, ready to take part in the Ice Exercise 2016.

During his visit to Murmansk, the deputy premier pays visit to the «Admiral Kuznetsov». In summer, the ship could be sent to Syria.

Russia plans to blow the dust of the construction drawings of the Lira-class submarine, the fastest and deepest diving operational submarines ever built.

As 15,000 soldiers from 14 countries engage in joint winter training in Norway, a team of Russian inspectors keeps a close look from the side.

According to Russian media, the Northern Fleet is preparing for the next combat readiness control of its nuclear deterrence forces; a 16-missile salvo launch from submerged position in Arctic waters – a drill that has not been attempted in 25 years.

We need a good neighborly relationship with Russia, but stability in the North can no longer be taken for granted, Norwegian Foreign Minister Børge Brende says in his annual address to Parliament.