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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

To further discourage its citizens from freely seeking or expressing the truth, officials in Russia are applying the label “foreign agent” to inspirational figures from the past. Recent examples ...

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