The Russian foreign ministry summons Norway's chargé d'affaires and falsely claims that new sanctions against Murmansk-based ...

Scientists played a key role in the struggle to make Svalbard Norwegian, but the greatest polar scientist of them all was ...

Governor Andrei Chibis hires Major Roman Oleshkin, a former deputy commander of the 200th Motorised Rifle Brigade, as a ...

Luminous aerial targets in parachutes served as “enemy drones” when the crews of the fighter jets launched air-to-air ...

After a several thousand kilometre voyage, the 22-year-old, 248 meter long Matari on July 25 made port call in Murmansk. The tanker is one of more than 30 carriers sanctioned by the EU that shuttle to ...

Vladimir Putin attended the flag raising ceremony for the Knyaz Pozharsky (K-555), a Borei-A class strategic submarine.

"The midnight sun just throws you all off. When you're supposed to sleep, it's still light," a tourist from Holland told the ...

To further discourage its citizens from freely seeking or expressing the truth, officials in Russia are applying the label ...

The Northern Fleet marks a huge 94,000 km2 of the Barents Sea as 'dangerous' for civilian shipping as live missile firings ...

The Barents Observer is not afraid of Putin. It is Putin and his allies who are terrified of independent media. Because ...

In principle it is possible to circumvent the state’s plan by using a VPN. But only 50% of Russian internet users have a VPN; ...