Desperate for more men, Russian military recruiters might launch an offensive against citizens with debts problems.

It is an obvious mismatch between the sanctioned's wish to conduct business in Norwegian economic zone and Norway's security ...

The Nordic country is investing 19 billion kroner (€1,65 billion) in the acquisition of the South Korean Chunmoo missile ...

The Aleksey Kosygin is Russia's first domestically-built gas carrier with ice classification Arc7. On February 2, it sailed into the Ura Bay for a transshipment operation at a 400-metre-long ...

The governor of Murmansk came on an unannounced inspection to the Pechenga district where local boiler houses fail to provide ...

Today I will work in Indiga,' governor of the Nenets Autonomous District Irina Gekht reported in a social media video post that showed her helicopter landing in the remote settlement.

The mid-winter visit by France’s Chief of Defence, General Fabien Mandon, to Norrbotten Air Wing (F 21) at Kallax air base in Luleå was overshadowed by Donald Trump's push for Greenland at Donald ...

The two Tu-22M3 planes took off from Olenya air base on the Kola Peninsula in the morning on January 22 and flew south along Russia's border with Finland before continuing out in international air ...

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“We are closely tracking all movements,” the Norwegian Armed Forces announced on Monday as the first photos started to come in of the Russian Baltic Fleet amphibious vessels currently on exercise.

The Arctic summer season is short and there is plenty of drilling, digging and construction works to be done before ice again covers these far northern waters. The Gulf of Ob has over the last years ...