Soviet war songs were played as half of the population in the Russian mining settlement of Barentsburg walked in procession with photos of dead soldiers, flags and ribbons of St. George, which many ...

General Consul Andrei Chemerilo laid down flowers at two memorial sites, in Barentsburg and the abandoned mining town of Pyramiden. With him was a group of about 40 people, among them Ildar Neverov, ...

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"There is significant progress in issues related to the development and commercial use of the Northern Sea Route," the Russian ruler underlined in today's joint press briefing with China's Xi Jinping.

The fjords in western Svalbard are receiving an increased, but variable inflow of warm Atlantic Water from the West Spitsbergen Current. FACE-IT has facilitated publication of hydrographic data ...

Krukovsky is the first counterintelligence agent in contemporary Russian history that has been declared 'hero of Russia,' a Russian military organisation claims. In a decree signed by Vladimir Putin ...

As the ministers discussed the increasingly strained security situation in the region, a F/A 18 Hornet fighter jet crashed in ...