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Civilian and emergency service vehicles are experiencing frequent GPS issues in regions close to Russia.

Civilian and emergency service vehicles are experiencing frequent GPS issues in regions close to Russia.

Russian children are trained to shoot assault rifles and weave camouflage nets in the village of Pechenega, Murmansk Oblast, 7 kilometres from the Norwegian border. Source: Norwegian media outlet NRK Details: Barents Observer editor Thomas Nilsen posted several photos on his Twitter account on 11 February about work with children and youth in the Russian village of Pechenega, which borders the Norwegian municipality of Sør Varanger.

Russian children are being trained to handle firearms and weave camouflage nets in the Pechenga urban locality, located just seven kilometers from Norway's border in the Murmansk Oblast, Norwegian media outlet NRK reported.

Lost in the holiday rush, the U.S. quietly expanded its claim to the Arctic seabed by an extra 200,000 square miles, an area twice the size of California.

The K-3 Leninsky Komsomol, a November-Class boart built in 1957, was the Soviet Union's first-ever nuclear submarine. It was developed as part of an effort to counter the United States Navy's USS Nautilus (SSN-571), the world's first nuclear-powered sub.

Many other countries would dillydally and respond only after serious harm had been done — not Finland.

While Russians are distracted by Ukraine, America claims an area twice the size of California.