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Articles with tag "Arctic"

Deep Sea Deployment

Navy: New Attack Submarines Will Sail for Northern Fleet

The Russian Defense Ministry has definitively approved the deployment of Yasen-class submarines.
DRAMATIC SHIFTS

Russia’s Leading Climate Change Expert Gives Sober Prognosis

Russia is set to experience huge temperature increases and extreme weather events, but there will also be opportunities.
northern frontier

Russia Unveils Arctic Ambitions With 2035 Strategy

The Kremlin published its 15-year-plan to help “settle the Arctic."
Curbing emissions

Is Russia Finally Waking Up to Climate Change?

Russia is the world’s fourth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases but has so far failed to adopt meaningful reduction targets.
Breaking the Ice

Russian Arctic Shipping Up 430% in 3 Years

The volume of goods being transported on the Northern Sea Route has never come close to the current level.
butting heads

Norway Rejects Moscow's Claim It Violated Svalbard Treaty

Russia complained that Oslo-imposed rules were restricting Russian organizations' activities in the strategically located islands.
ruled from moscow

Russian Lawmakers Propose Special Governing Status for Arctic

Strategically important areas of Russia's north could be directly administered by the federal government under a new proposal.
NEW DRILLS

Murmansk Commandos Conduct Anti-Terrorism Drills Onboard Nuclear Icebreakers

Troops from several key enforcement authorities in the region took part in the exercises.
ARCTIC OIL

Russia's New Arctic Project Will Be Biggest in Global Oil – Rosneft

The Vostok Oil project is designed exploit 5 billion additional tons of oil in northern Russia.
LOOK CLOSER

Unusual Creatures Filmed Beneath Russia’s Arctic Ice

You never know what you will find under the ice!
tax break

Moscow Outlines $231Bln Plan for Arctic Oil Development

A new tax regime for the Russian Arctic aims to spark an unprecedented wave of investments in icy drilling.
Transforming the landscape

Climate Change Is Moving Russia's Taiga North, Scientists Warn

The current developments in the Arctic have not been seen for the past 7,000 years, one scientist said.
sharing is caring

Russia Accuses Norway of Restricting Its Activities on Arctic Islands

"We do not intend to curtail our presence there," the Foreign Ministry said of the strategically located archipelago.
cold response

Russian Warships to Hold Missile Drills Near Norway’s Gas Pipeline to Europe

Norwegian intelligence sees the drills as a response to the Western exercises that take place north of the Arctic Circle in March.
SNOWFLAKE FUTURE

Russia Steps into Oil-Free Future With New Arctic Research Station

The Snowflake research station will be fully fueled by hydrogen and is being built as Russia prepares to take over the chair of the Arctic Council.
Arctic Oil

Mishustin Gives Gazprom the Go-Ahead

The new prime minister granted Gazprom Oil the development rights to the Khambateyskoye gas and oil field.
break the ice

Russia's Nuclear-Powered Icebreaker Escorts Up 54% in 2019

In 2019, nuclear-powered icebreakers escorted 510 vessels along the Northern Sea Route.
Arctic expansion

Moscow Adopts 15-Year Grand Plan for Northern Sea Route

By 2035, the Russian government intends to facilitate massive exploitation of natural resources.
northern energy

Gazprom to Build the World's Northernmost Petrochemical Plant in the Arctic

The company intends to produce millions of tons of plastics on the remote lands.
New energy

World’s First Floating Nuclear Plant Goes Online in Russia – Rosatom

The plant, which environmentalists call the “Chernobyl on ice” and “nuclear Titanic,” will supply about 100,000 people with energy.
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