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"Conflict over Arctic shelf unlikely"

It all depends on Russia’s and the other Arctic countries’ obligedness with the recommendations issued by the UN, an expert says.

August 07, 2015
Trade with Russia plummets

Norway and Russia reaches new low in economic cooperation

August 06, 2015
Finnish ministers: Fennovoima reactor will go ahead

Prime Minister Sipilä confirms that the Fennovoima nuclear plant will be built in Pyhäjoki, after Economic Affairs Minister Rehn declares that the domestic ownership criterion has been met.

August 05, 2015
Russian Arctic scientists to be evacuated from ice floe

An icebreaker sailed from Murmansk yesterday to pick up 17 scientists who have spent four months on an ice floe near the North Pole.

August 05, 2015
Russia ready to talk with Denmark over North Pole

It might take up to 15 years to settle the Arctic delimitation issue, the Russian Foreign Ministry says.

August 05, 2015
Offshore energy monopoly on table

Rosneft President Igor Sechin wants all Russian oil and gas companies to buy offshore technology from only one construction plant, the Zvezda yard outside Vladivostok. 

August 04, 2015
Black Sea submarine fires cruise missile from the Barents Sea

The diesel-electric submarine “Novorossiysk” completed a series of tests in Arctic conditions by firing a cruise missile from the Barents Sea. The submarine will soon leave for the Black Sea.

August 04, 2015
Ice-free Arctic summers expected by 2050s

Improved computer simulations suggest that the Arctic will see its first ice-free summer in 2050, a decade earlier than previously projected.

August 04, 2015
Russia submits claim for North Pole

The Russian continental shelf stretches beyond the North Pole, the Russian government asserts. The country this week submitted its renewed claims for the Arctic shelf to the UN Continental Shelf Commission.

August 04, 2015
Best half year ever for Norwegian seafood export

The export values of Norwegian seafood recorded in the first half of 2015 is the highest ever, amounting to €3.78 billion.

August 04, 2015
Arkhangelsk senator leaves Federation Council

One of the most liberal representatives in the upper chamber of parliament is ejected from his post.

August 03, 2015
Belarusian salmon to be destructed

We will nose out and destroy all foodstuff imported illegally from countries subjected to the sanction regime, Russian authorities say.

August 03, 2015
Stronger control of visitors to Svalbard

The Governor of Svalbard wants to know the identity of all air passenger arriving to the Arctic archipelago. 

August 03, 2015