Two helicopters took off from a base in Russia's far northern archipelago of Severnaya Zemlya and made it all the way to the ...

Pregnant polar bear females usually enter the den in late autumn and remain there throughout the winter. They don't eat ...

Built at the Admirality shipyard in St. Petersburg, the icebreaking patrol vessel sailed around the Baltics and Scandinavia ...

The first oil came on stream at the Johan Castberg field before noon on March 31, marking a new northern milestone in ...

The nuclear icebreaker base in Murmansk was in the centre of world attention as it on Friday hosted a meeting with Russian ruler Vladimir Putin. The belligerent dictator visited Atomflot as part of ...

Once upon a time, scientists had a broad, holistic approach to research. They might explore everything from animals and ...

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The country is moving towards economic collapse, instability looms and the war against Ukraine is killing a generation of young men. But during his visit to Murmansk this week, Vladimir Putin ...

"Sweden and Europe are facing an entirely new security environment. That’s why today we unveiled Sweden’s largest military rearmament plan since the days of the Cold War," Kristersson said on March 26 ...