The military instructors of Chechen ruler Ramzan Kadyrov are preparing Russian men for war and a militant organisation with links to Chechnya is establishing itself in a growing number of regions, ...

A key part of combat training for for the Russian navy’s new frigates in 2025 will be long-distance sailings. In Severomorsk, ...

Following its transshipment of natural gas from Russia's sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project, the Mulan has been sailing in ...

Fully battery powered vehicles made up 89 percent of all new cars sold in 2024, the highest electrification of private ...

The five LNG carriers that were included in the latest round of EU sanctions against Russia are all stalled in remote Arctic ...

Traffic across the Norwegian-Russian border was lower in 2024 than in 1992, the first year after the collapse of the Soviet ...

More and more expedition cruise ships are sailing into the Arctic with passengers thirsty for posting their own photos of polar bears on Instagram or other social media. That will be nearly impossible ...

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