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The Barents Observer @thebarentsobserver.com · 4d

New Google Earth satellite images reveals how Russia is preparing for possible Ukrainian drone strikes at the Central Test Site for nuclear weapons at Severny on Novaya Zemlya.

Russia puts drone nets on fuel tanks at faraway Arctic nuclear test site

The rapid development of long-distance war drones has scared Russia to install protection nets much further away from the frontline than any drone so far have reached. The nuclear test site at Novaya ...

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The Barents Observer @thebarentsobserver.com · 4d

Igor Rudenya is sanctioned by the international community for his involvement in the abduction of Ukrainian children. He now takes over the post as Putin's plenipotentiary in the Northwest Federal District

Putin's new leader of Northwest Russia is staunch supporter of war and Orthodoxy

Igor Rudenya is sanctioned by the international community for his involvement in the abduction of Ukrainian children. He now takes over the post as Putin's plenipotentiary in the Northwest Federal Dis...

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The Barents Observer @thebarentsobserver.com · 5d

Murmansk news-online fined for article about Barents Observer lawyer. Forgot to mention that he is branded as a so-called 'foreign agent'. www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/murmans...

Murmansk news-online fined for article about Barents Observer lawyer

The reason was the absence of 'foreign agent' labelling for Maxim Olenichev, who represented Barents Observer in court.

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The Barents Observer @thebarentsobserver.com · 5d

Google Earth has updated its images of Novaya Zemlya, the Arctic archipelago where Russia’s nuclear weapon designers are conducting tests of their latest inventions. The Barents Observer zooms in 📡 and highlight the facilities at Pankovo test site for the Burevestnik ⚛️ ☢️ missile.

New satellite images reveal scale of Putin’s 'flying Chornobyl' test complex

Google Earth has updated its images of Novaya Zemlya, the Arctic archipelago where Russia’s nuclear weapon designers are conducting tests of their latest inventions.

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The Barents Observer @thebarentsobserver.com · 5d

The ultra-nationalistic organisation Russkaya Obshchina (Russian Community) is gaining strength in Russian regions

Nationalists come forth with raisted fists

The ultra-right nationalist organisation Russkaya Obshchina (Russian Community) is gaining strength in Russian regions. Its members stage provocations, conduct raids against migrants, engage in confro...

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The Barents Observer @thebarentsobserver.com · 6d

Smiling FSB boss who previously served in Russian occupied Abkhazia was this week welcomed to Norway by military commander to talk cooperation along northern land- and maritime border.

Big smiles when FSB Major General Andrei Kudimov came to talk cooperation with Norway

A top meeting between the FSB's Border Directorate and the Norwegian Joint Headquarters today took place on board a Norwegian coast guard vessel. The FSB boss remained silent when asked by the Barents...

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The Barents Observer @thebarentsobserver.com · 6d

Governor signs contract with Chinese shipper, says Murmansk can become hub for 'icy silk road'

Cooperation with the shipping company NewNew Shipping Line could give the region a key position in Chinese container shipping across the Arctic, says governor Andrei Chibis. The Chinese company is ass...

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The Barents Observer @thebarentsobserver.com · 7d

This year's September was confirmed as the third warmest September on record in the whole of Norway.
“We can clearly see that the summer heat extended into the autumn season, while winter is shrinking,” climate scientist Hans Olav Hygen said.

“It was the warmest September on record in Tromsø”

Some regions in Arctic Norway have experienced exceptionally warm weather last month compared to observational records stretching back a century.

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The Barents Observer @thebarentsobserver.com · 7d

A top meeting between the FSB's Border Directorate and the Norwegian Joint Headquarters today took place onboard a 🇸🇯 coast guard vessel. The FSB boss remained silent when asked by the Barents Observer about recent violations of Norwegian air space.

Big smiles when FSB Major General Andrei Kudimov came to talk cooperation with Norway

A top meeting between the FSB's Border Directorate and the Norwegian Joint Headquarters today took place onboard a Norwegian coast guard vessel. The FSB boss remained silent when asked by the Barents ...

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The Barents Observer @thebarentsobserver.com · 9d

Shipbuilders in Murmansk put their faith in a 46-year-old floating dock

A 220 meter long and 70 meter wide floating dock that has been lying idle in a nuclear submarine base for more than 30 years is getting new life as part of an effort to revive the ship repair industry...

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The Barents Observer @thebarentsobserver.com · 10d

Norway takes measures to monitor human-made isotopes in the high Arctic amid Russia's test-season for the Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile at Novaya Zemlya.
#Svalbard #Radiation #NuclearSafety #CTBTO

Norway opens world’s northernmost permanent radiation monitoring

The air filter monitoring station will serve as an important supplement to Norway’s nuclear emergency preparedness and will strengthen vigilance in the north.

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The Barents Observer @thebarentsobserver.com · 10d

The Barents Observer was aboard the 🇺🇸 carrier Gerald R. Ford as fighter jets took off for the first-of-a-kind exercise bombing missions from the North Sea to the southern coast of Finland.

Massive NATO show of force in Nordic region sends message to Russia

THE NORTH SEA: The Barents Observer was aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford on Wednesday as fighter jets took off for exercise bombing missions from the North Sea to the southern coast of Finland. The show ...

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The Barents Observer @thebarentsobserver.com · 12d

Voice against war: Anna hung up Ukrainian flags and started to wear blue and yellow clothes. She had to flee from her north Russian village.

Anti-war activist Anna hung up Ukrainian flags and started to wear blue and yellow clothes. She had to flee from her north Russian village

Anna Stepanova knows well what it means to lose friends, face harassment and threats from neighbours, and be forced into exile. She still loves her village of Savinsky in Arkhangelsk region, but hates...

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The Barents Observer @thebarentsobserver.com · 13d

The scientists have also researched data from other nearby places around the Barents Sea - such as the Russian archipelagos of Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya - and concluded that the ice loss in 2024 was enough to raise the world’s oceans by about one quarter of a millimeter.

Record-breaking glacier melt on Svalbard

Svalbard ice loss in 2024 accounted for 10% of the sea-level rise contribution from all glaciers in the world, a new study highlights.

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The Barents Observer @thebarentsobserver.com · 13d

Arch-conservative Murmansk church leader Mitrofan comes to occupied Donetsk region to visit warriors from Kola Peninsula fighting on occupied land. He argues that Donbass and Murmansk both are frontline regions in the so-called 'Russian world'

Murmansk church leader who calls for 'de-nazification' of Ukraine pays visit to occupied land

During his visit to Mariupol, Metropolitan Mitrofan asserted that both Donbass and Murmansk are frontline regions in the so-called 'Russian world.'

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The Barents Observer @thebarentsobserver.com · 14d

Russian authorities are green-lighting ships without ice-class on the Northern Sea Route. This month, it could have ended in catastrophe

Moscow pushes Arctic shipping towards disaster

Russian authorities are green-lighting ships without ice-class on the Northern Sea Route. This month, it could have ended in catastrophe.

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The Barents Observer @thebarentsobserver.com · 15d

These craters are only found in Western Siberia and not elsewhere in the vast Arctic belt of permafrost. Why?

"The region of Yamal and Gydan has some of the largest active gas fields in the world,” Professor Helge Hellevang emphasises.

Why do giant craters appear in the Siberian tundra?

Researchers in Oslo found that the origin of the giant holes in Siberia is not caused by climate change and permafrost thaw alone.

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The Barents Observer @thebarentsobserver.com · 15d

"There cannot be vehicles on Svalbard that can be confused with Russian police cars," says member of the Norwegian Parliament Erlend Larsen.

Norwegian MP says Russia’s “police” car on Svalbard should be repainted or removed

'There cannot be vehicles on Svalbard that can be confused with Russian police cars,' says member of the Norwegian Parliament Erlend Larsen.

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The Barents Observer @thebarentsobserver.com · 15d

BREAKING: Russian aircraft three times violated Norwegian airspace, says PM Jonas Gahr Støre

Prime Minister Støre: Russian aircraft violated Norwegian airspace

In the period between April and August this year, Russian planes on three occasions violated the airspace over Eastern Finnmark, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre says.

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The Barents Observer @thebarentsobserver.com · 15d

European energy security and indigenous rights are at stake, and unresolved disputes risk escalating conflicts. In this longread, we explore how the demand for critical minerals and metals are challenging Sámi reindeer herders in the northern regions of Norway and Sweden.

The mineral conflict in the high north

Europe’s demand for critical minerals and metals is growing while Sámi reindeer herders in Norway and Sweden defend their territories and cultural traditions. European energy security and indigenous r...

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The Barents Observer @thebarentsobserver.com · 15d

"Norway finds itself in a special security situation and the location of Kirkenes and Eastern Finnmark is exceptionally important," head of the Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection said when she came to the border town

Government commissions establishment of 'preparedness hub' in Kirkenes

'Norway finds itself in a special security policy situation and the location of Kirkenes and Eastern Finnmark is exceptionally important,' head of the Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection said w...

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The Barents Observer @thebarentsobserver.com · 16d

The Barents Observer has interviewed the Russian soldier who deserted from the war in Ukraine and made it illegally over to Norway after after a strenuous walk across the wilderness of the Kola Peninsula.

“There’s no way back”

The story of the Russian soldier who deserted from the war in Ukraine and ran across the border to Norway after nearly two weeks in the wilderness.

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The Barents Observer @thebarentsobserver.com · 18d

"It is time to turn off the tap," President of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen emphasised as she announced the Union's 19th sanctions package against Russia

New EU sanctions package targets Russian LNG

'It is time to turn off the tap,' President of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen emphasised as she announced the Union's 19th sanctions package against Russia. Europe will halt imports of Russian...

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The Barents Observer @thebarentsobserver.com · 20d

Major general Roman Fyodorov from the 61st Naval Infantry Brigade in Sputnik, Murmansk region, was among the military leaders present when army general Valery Gerasimov this week visited occupied Ukrainian land

Commander of Arctic marines in the room as General Staff Chief Gerasimov pays visit to war zone

Major General Roman Fyodorov from the 61st Naval Infantry Brigade in Sputnik, Murmansk region, was among the military leaders present when army general Valery Gerasimov this week visited occupied Ukra...

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The Barents Observer @thebarentsobserver.com · 21d

Instead, the researchers emphasise that it is the burning of fossil fuels that is heating the planet, with 'catastrophic consequences for its habitability and for the natural world on which our existence depends'.

Re-freezing the Arctic is costly and dangerous

Researchers warn against geoengineering in the polar regions.

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