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WEB2 days ago · The Barents Observer is a journalist-owned online newspaper covering the Euro-Arctic region and northern Russia. With a devotion for cross-border journalism the Barents Observer provides daily news reports from and about Scandinavia, Russia and the Arctic. Our dedicated and experienced team of Norwegian and …
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WEB2 days ago · The Barents Observer follows the Code of Ethics of the Norwegian Press and the document Right and Duties of the Editor. We report under full editorial independence and have no external interference. Freedom to write - freedom to publish ...
World's biggest underwater methane hotspot is found off Barents …
WEB2 days ago · September 2, 2024. “It’s essentially where methane gas is leaking from the sea floor,” Henry Patton says. “This is happening all over the world, but in in the Barents Sea we have mapped and found the biggest known underwater hotspot of methane,” the researcher explains. The discovery was made in the central parts of the Barents Sea ...
War in the Arctic
WEB2 days ago · Russia has itself to thank for bringing act of war inside the Arctic Circle for the first time since Second War II. Thomas Nilsen. September 16, 2024. How Ukraine manage to navigate drones far north to the Kola Peninsula is still not detailed. But despite very long distance, it comes as no surprise that Olenya airfield is a high-value target.
U.S. Arctic Insecurity: It’s time for a new strategy
WEB2 days ago · Bilateral security agreements will reduce geopolitical tensions and affirm American leadership in the Arctic. Current U.S. neglect of the Arctic allows competitors, like Russia and China, to strong-arm our allies, build critical infrastructure, develop new technologies, and exploit resources. Russian President Vladimir Putin, in August ...
U.S. strategic bombers fly second Barents Sea mission this week
WEBMarch 26, 2024. ADVERTISEMENT. The American bombers’ mission is the second in a few days to areas outside Russia’s strategic important submarine bases on the coast of the Barents Sea. On Sunday, the U.S. planes were met by a MiG-31, as reported by the Barents Observer. Flight patterns for the mission on Tuesday is not detailed, but the ...
Barentsburg: 'Everyone was told to stop posting opinions about …
WEBMay 11, 2023 · The “not-talk, not-discuss” message came in early March 2022, shortly after Russia’s all-out war on Ukraine.Messenger was Russia’s top official and former head of Arktikugol. Timofey Rogozhin has left the mining settlement of Barentsburg where he was in charge of developing Arctic tourism as a new income for Moscow’s presence in the Norwegian archipelago.
Admiral Moiseev launches massive Ocean-2024 strategic exercise
WEB2 days ago · September 10, 2024. “The exercise will become one of the main events of operational and combat training of the Russian armed Forces in 2024,” says Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Admiral Aleksandr Moiseev. The announcement posted by the Ministry of Defense [unsafe link] on September 10 is the first official confirmation about the long ...
Two nuclear submarines shot missiles in Barents Sea
WEBJune 20, 2024. The subs fired cruise missiles of the type Kalibr and Granit and successfully hit their targets located about 170 km away, the Northern Fleet informs. Reportedly, the target was an imagined group of enemy landing vessels. Judging from a video published by the Russian Navy, the submarines both launched the missiles from submerged ...
The new Arctic colonization | The Independent Barents Observer
WEBThe Arctic is money and the modern state machine no longer serves the ideals of universal happiness. This time, only private interests are being served. It is this new Arctic agenda that human rights activist Rodion Sulyandziga considers the root cause of the wave of repression against indigenous people.