Arctic Ural News Today

Moscow, Dec 26 (EFE).- Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny said he is well on Tuesday, one day after he reappeared in a prison colony in Russia’s far north. Navalny, one of president Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critics, had not been seen or heard from in nearly three weeks since being moved from a prison …

In the frozen north of Russia, people prospect and extract natural gas on energy politics' coldest battlefront

A rare, up-close look at Gazprom’s gas production in Arctic Siberia – Putin’s trump card against Europe. Photojournalist Justin Jin travelled for months between 2012 and 2019 – more than half the pictures were shot in 2019 – and was granted unprecedented access to strategic zones by the Russian military, where international energy companies showed him their technology and snow-truck drivers took him along