We had a problem with thick sea-ice, captain Aleksandr Gladkov says about the voyage from Severodvinsk to the naval base in ...

Russia's barbaric war in Ukraine is draining resources, but Leningrad Military District will in the longer run significantly ...

Donald Trump is scheduled to visit California this weekend to observe the wildfires, prompting him to recall Finnish forestry ...

The Nordic Council of Ministers has launched a new programme that aims to build up resilience and supporting local Arctic ...

"Every other mother and wife talks with third parties, including the enemy, about the location of their men in Ukraine. This information is compiled by the enemy and used for precision strikes." The ...

In 2024, Russian courts handed down at least 27 sentences to journalists, most of whom were accused of "spreading falsehoods about the armed forces of the Russian Federation", according to a report ...

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Thousands of soldiers from the three brigades inside the Arctic Circle, near the border with NATO, are killed or wounded on the battlefields in northern and eastern Ukraine over the last three years.

For decades, there have been military radars on the small mountain top in the Pechenga area. From Iyvara, there is good view over the flat and open landscape that stretches across the Arctic ...

The Barents Observer follows the Code of Ethics of the Norwegian Press and the document Right and Duties of the Editor. We report under full editorial independence and have no external interference.