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The development plan that was adopted by the federal government on the 4th of August has grand ambitions for the Russian Arctic. Over the period until 2035, a total of 1,8 trillion rubles (€30,1 billion) is to be invested in 152 regional...

Urinating in the wrong direction at the NATO-Russia border in Norway could cost you $350 or more. For world peace, aim wisely.

One of the newest developments for Kremlin’s threat and deterrence strategy is the 9M730 Burevestnik (NATO codename SSC-X-9 Skyfall); a nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed cruise missile with potential unlimited range that has Western analysts worried.

Faced with mounting combat losses in Ukraine and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threat to expand the size of Russian forces there, the absence of a general mobilization plan undermines the Kremlin leader’s claims and could trigger more domestic opposition (Meduza, May 5). As such, Moscow is now turning to the regions and republics to procure more volunteers for the Russian …

Spitzbergen, the largest and only continually inhabited island of the Svalbard Archipelago, located in the Arctic Ocean, 1,000 kilometers north of Norway, is on its way to becoming a new hotspot in the emerging cold war between the Russian Federation and the West (Nrk.no June 28; Ekho Rossii, June 29). For decades, this Norwegian territory’s legal position has been anything …

Russian Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin has instructed the Foreign Affairs Committee to study options of denouncing a treaty on maritime delimitation and cooperation in the Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean. — Ukrinform.

The preliminary results of the pandemic-delayed 2020 Russian census have now been released—the final and complete data will not be issued until later this year—and they are not sufficient either to cross check the various figures to ensure their reliability or to prevent disputes about their accuracy (Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Hse.ru, May 30; Novosti Volgograda, June 2). Despite those limitations, however, …

Admitting Finland would extend NATO's border with Russia's Kola Peninsula, a region that Moscow sees as a military bastion.

Admitting Finland would extend NATO's border with Russia's Kola Peninsula, a region that Moscow sees as a military bastion.

Unlike previous test shootings of the new supersonic cruise missile in the Russian north, Saturday's launch happened from the Barents Sea towards a target in the White Sea. Previous tests have either been from the White Sea, across the Kola...