The Russian Ministry of Energy issues notes to national energy, metal and mineral companies requesting 100% of employees to show up at military recruitment offices.

FSB border guards opened fire after the man running the polar night in the snow across the Pasvik River from Russia to Norway. The man, allegedly a defector from the Wagner mercenary group, says he

There were no natural phenomena that led to the break of the fiberoptic cable between the Arctic archipelago and the Norwegian mainland, preliminary police investigations conclude.

Pilots flying the Finnmark region see a sharp spike in disturbances of navigation caused by Russian electronic warfare units located on the Kola Peninsula.

At least eight nuclear-powered submarines sailed out from their homeports on the Kola Peninsula last week, the Norwegian military intelligence says to NRK.

Photos and short video clips have previously been available, but this unseen 40 minutes declassified footage of the Soviet Union’s monster nuclear bomb give a whole new insight into what happened on

The parliament in Hungary will vote on ratification of Swedish NATO membership on Monday. Formal flag raising for the North Atlantic Alliance’s 32nd member will take place outside the Headquarters in

The Sevmorput and Newnew Polar Bear sailed over the Balticconnector and the telecom cable in pair at the time the damage occurred. Now, they are following each other outside northern Norway, en route

The Border Guard Base in Ivalo is one of five northern sites highlighted in the new defence agreement between Finland and the USA. Not far away is Russia's heavily militarized Kola Peninsula.

Kidnapping of Ukrainian children is key reason why Governor Andrei Chibis is included in the Norwegian sanctions list. There are now at least 125 deported Ukrainian children adopted by Russian

As it was waiting for icebreaker escort, the ship operator changed name and obtained a special permission for sailing on the Northern Sea Route.

Four passenger aircraft have over the last few days lost GPS signals when flying in Norway’s northeastern region. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, jamming has been registered more than 20 days.

Invisible for humans, but detectable for radiation-filters. A cloud with tiny levels of radioactivity, believed to originate from western Russia, has been detected over Scandinavia and European

But the north Norwegian border town of Kirkenes does not want to give a new name to the square near its local Russian general consulate.

The brand new Rapid Dragon is a highly potent weapon system that can launch a swarm of cruise missiles from a standard military transport plane. The United States, with NATO members, will for the

A record high 880 Swedish soldiers have crossed the northern border to Finland for a week-long exercise kicking off on Monday. British troopers are also participating.

The Russian Army on Friday updated its losses to 1,351 soldiers killed in action in the Ukraine war. An adviser with the President’s office in Kyiv says its armed forces destroyed an Arctic tactical

The Nordic country is buying big drones that are to enhance its ability to control maritime interests areas in the Barents Sea. They will be based at Andøya, 300 km north of the Arctic Circle.

There is no redundant between the Arctic archipelago and mainland Norway after loss of power in the area where the fiberoptic cable follows the seabed down to a depth of 2,700 meters in the Greenland

The municipal council of Sør-Varanger, where Kirkenes is the town center, on Wednesday ended its friendship agreement with next-door Pechenga Rayon.

In a manifestation of Nordic NATO unity, more than 200 vehicles and 300 containers are sent from the USA to Narvik and further to an allied exercise in Finland.

Norway is the last European country to shut the gate for Russian vehicles with less than 10 seats.

Norway is violating the Svalbard Treaty from 1920, says Deputy Speaker in the Russian Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev following the Nordic country's unwillingness to facilitate transportation

The Russian Defense Minister argues that "retaliatory measures are required" as Finland and Sweden now join NATO.

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“This is the first time I have seen a Swedish military reconnaissance and intelligence plane flying in northern Finland to collect information from Russian systems in the area of the Kola Peninsula,”

Local authorities wanted to give downtown Gadzhievo a much-needed facelift, but the painting of an American attack submarine on a local house wall soon sparked outrage.

A pair of US Air Force B-1B strategic bombers supported by tanker planes flew over Norway and international airspace in the Norwegian- and Barents Seas in the direction of Russia's Kola Peninsula on

The ban enters force from midnight. Norway is now the only country allowing Russian vehicles with less than 10 seats to enter.

Together with the Jaeger Brigade in Sodankylä, the American soldiers will exercise tactical interoperability in the coldest wilderness of northern Europe.

The Cosmos-2555 got out of orbit and perished as it entered the atmosphere.

Norway is the only of Russia's neighboring countries that is included in a list of states with a so-called unfriendly line against Russian diplomatic offices.

The Norwegian Army will expand from one to three brigades, of which two will be in northern Norway.

The USS Seawolf conducted a brief stop in the fjord near Tromsø on August 21 for personnel change before sailing out to waters inside the Arctic Circle.

The last of the 15 Russian intelligence officers that were declared unwanted from Oslo last week left the country on Friday.

Tensions are increasing as FSB again sends migrants across its northern checkpoint with Europe. A group of 35 asylum seekers came to Salla in Finnish Lapland on Monday. Norway says it is on alert.

Consul General Nikolai Konygin had invited to commemorate the Red Army’s liberation of Kirkenes. Environed by Ukrainian flags, the 78th anniversary became very different from previous ceremonies in

Flames goes hundreds of meters into the sky as a fire hits the Urengoy field in Russia's North.

Planned maintains and repair are as a main rule no longer allowed, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs makes clear. In Finnmark, Police on Friday announced new onshore rules, limiting the areas of access

Flying in attack formation, the group of Su-24 attack aircraft turned away just before Norwegian airspace.

The Russian warship has been followed by Norway’s Armed Forces on its voyages southbound from the Barents Sea to the North Sea where it is west of Stavanger Tuesday evening.

Last year's early freeze triggered a critical situation with more than 20 vessels stuck in thick ice. This year, the shipping conditions in Russian Arctic waters might be even worse.

The Russian citizen was fined and expelled from Norway, the police in Finnmark inform.

As Russia deploys the new 3M22 Tsirkon anti-ship hypersonic missile in the Barents Sea, NATO has decided to send two of its most potent naval weapons to the Norwegian-led Exercise Cold Response, the

"The land forces on Kola are reduced to a fifth of their original numbers before the invasion of Ukraine," says Chief of the Norwegian Intelligence Service, Vice Admiral Nils Andreas Stensønes to the

Ahead of deployment in Ukraine, mobilized men are sent to training facilities in Pechenga, the Russian border region to Norway. They are told that they are on a "holy mission" against America and its

Police in Finnmark on Monday arrested 47-year-old Andrey Yakunin in Hammerfest, accused of flying a drone at Svalbard and possibly at other locations in Norway. This is the fourth time in a week that

The Russian Northern Fleet exercised with both artillery and surface-to-air missiles at a pre-announced area halfway between Northern Norway and Iceland in the first week of NATO’s Cold Response.

The world’s largest aircraft carrier will after a short visit to Oslo sail north simultaneously as Europe’s largest fighter jet drill kicks off in the skies above Norway, Sweden and Finland.

"The situation out there and the needs here home makes it necessary to now strengthen our Armed Forces," says PM Jonas Gahr Støre. The country's defence spending will reach two percent of GDP in

During Saturday, at least six Tu-22M3 aircraft have been relocated from the Soltsy-2 air base in Novgorod region to the Olenya air base on the Kola Peninsula.

The large surveillance drone flew along the border with Russia’s Karelia region. It improves situation awareness and strengthens national defense, the Finnish Defense Forces says.

Police in Finnmark on Monday arrested 47-year-old Andrey Yakunin in Hammerfest, accused of flying a drone at Svalbard and possibly at other locations in Norway. This is the fourth time in a week that

Specialized invasion defense soldiers on the border with Russia’s heavily militarised Kola Peninsula are the first in Norway to be armed with the Piorun man-portable air defense system.

Tuesday's signal intelligence flights clearly demonstrate NATO's need to keep an eye on Russia’s military powerbank, the Kola Peninsula, and why Norway’s self-imposed restrictions in eastern Finnmark

According to Aleksei Navalny's team of investigators, Vladimir Putin sent his much beloved Graceful through the icy and remote Arctic waters in order to save it from arrest.

Under Putin, history has become a key strategic tool in Russian foreign and security policy. Norway is currently subject to an increasingly aggressive Russian memory policy in the north.

Sailing under the ice north of Siberia is cheaper than crushing through, a concept study concludes.

A historic chapter in NATO’s Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) comes to an end as the F-16 Fighting Falcon flies last mission on January 6 and Bodø Air Base shuts down.

"What a splendid mural has appeared in Gadzhievo," regional Governor Andrei Chibis exclaims after painters hastily redesigned the house wall in the Northern Fleet base.

This is a response to NATO enlargement in Northern Europe and expected further changes in allied defense posture, says Professor Katarzyna Zysk with the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies.

The Kinzhal missile was launched from a MiG-31K taking off from Olenegorsk airbase on the Kola Peninsula.

Norway has not faced such serious threats against its national security in several decades, the country's three main intelligence authorities warn in new reports. Among the key targets of malevolent

"They have engaged in activities not compatible with their diplomatic status," says Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt.

Russia’s ongoing war games in the Barents Sea anger fishermen currently fishing north and south of Bear Island. A Norwegian Coast Guard vessel is also in the area.

U.S. troops will take part in Cold Response, the Norway-led winter drills, but with substantially fewer soldiers than originally planned.

The group was assisted by people on the Russian side, the Finnish Border Guard informs.

Andrei Chibis had put on a shirt with Russia's war-symbol when he this weekend paid a visit to the Pechenga region.

The K-157 "Vepr" is first of five upgraded Akula-class subs that are about to return to active duty in the Barents Sea.

Amid war and international sanctions, Norwegian businessman Gunnar Nordsletten continues to develop his corporate interests in Putin's Russia. According to a journalistic investigation, he is closely

Sailing the waters around Lofoten archipelago in Northern Norway, the authority of the strike group was this weekend transferred from US Navy to NATO.

Defence officials were tight-lipped about the symbolic visit of the planes in Finnish airspace, which came as US troops joined exercises in southeast Finland.

The Finnish Government on Tuesday decided to close the entire border with Russia for two weeks.

Mobilised men from the far northern Russian border town say they are abandoned along the frontline in Ukraine without food and equipment.

Ahead of Ukraine's Independence Day, Anton painted his car in yellow and blue. Locals in Kirkenes must do much more to show opposition to the war and Putin's regime, he says.

The head of the Cabinet of Ministers of Finland believes that the opening of the checkpoints on the eastern border still threatens the national security of the country.

Nobody has jumped from such heights so far north. "First time in world history," said Russian Deputy Minister of Defense, Lt. Gen. Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, about the special exercise at the Franz Josef

Russia significantly increased its modern naval nuclear forces on Thursday as one new Borei-A class submarine was handed over to the navy at the shipyard in Severodvinsk.

A Russian MiG-31 fighter jet was scrambled from the Kola Peninsula to identify the pair of U.S. Air Force B-1B bombers over the Barents Sea. Simultaneously were a Swedish and a U.S. intelligence

“This is a historic event,” said Brigadier general Tommy Peterson, acting chief of Sweden’s air force.