Why Putin’s Attempt to Rewire Global Trade Is Faltering, in Charts and Maps
Moscow redirected oil sales, but forging new routes for other commodities proves difficult amid high costs and U.S. sanctions ...
US-Russia Rivalry Heats Up in Arctic Arena
Russian military aircraft flew near Alaska while American soldiers deployed to a remote island near the Arctic region.
The New Yorker10d
Russia’s Espionage War in the Arctic
For years, Russia has been using the Norwegian town of Kirkenes, which borders its nuclear stronghold, as a laboratory, ...
The Diplomat1d
Russia and China in the Arctic: Less Than Meets the Eye
Friendly rhetoric hides distrust and competition between an ambitious Beijing and a Moscow jealous of its Arctic prerogative.
New York Sun3d
An ‘Acute Threat’ Is Posed by Russia in Its Operations in the Arctic
It completes today its largest exercises since the Soviet Union and is racing to expand its fleet of ice-breakers.
Tanker from Russia's Arctic LNG 2 completes voyage via Northern Sea Route, data shows
A tanker carrying cargo from Russia's Arctic LNG 2 has passed through the Northern Sea Route for the first time and approached a gas hub, according to LSEG ship-tracking data, in the latest sign that ...
U.S. moves soldiers to Alaska island as Russian military activity increases in the area
The U.S. military has moved about 130 soldiers along with mobile rocket launchers to a desolate island in the Aleutian chain ...
Russian Navy starts Ocean-2024 exercises
The Russian Navy has started the naval exercise Ocean-2024, which will take place on five seas and test operational readiness ...
Russia begins massive naval drills together with China
The Russian military on Tuesday launched massive naval and air drills spanning across both hemispheres and including China in ...
Daily Maverick on MSN2d
Russia captures town in eastern Donetsk; Moscow ready to resume nuke testing ’at any moment’
Russian forces captured the Ukrainian town of Ukrainsk in the eastern Donetsk region on Tuesday as they advanced westwards in a bid to take the whole of the Donbas, reported the Russian state-run RIA ...
China’s Arctic Dreams Make a Tiny Port a Global Prize
Not far from the top of the world, a Norwegian town of 3,600 people is becoming an unlikely hotbed of East-West rivalry ...
Radio Canada International10d
A former Norwegian tanker now smuggles Russian LNG across the Arctic
The Everest Energy used to be based in a Norwegian port and sail under Norwegian flag. Now it is operated by a recently ...