Languages: English. The Arctic, once a politically neutral area of the globe, is largely now seen as a geopolitical and military frontier. Since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, international ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin's FSB fears China is "trying to encroach on" Russian territory, a leaked document alleges.

The world’s largest satellite ground station, on the Svalbard archipelago off Norway, is used by Western space agencies to gather vital signals from polar-orbiting satellites. This January, one ...

Moscow sees China, India, and other Asian powers as critical for the future of the Northern Sea Route, but their involvement ...

Map of Arctic routes. NOAA Image Russia’s military presence in the Arctic peaked during the Soviet era and new increases to defense spending have expanded operations in the region, though it’s ...

The high Arctic is an internationally ... Now three of them — Russia, Canada and Denmark, on behalf of its autonomous dependent territory Greenland — are redrawing maps and arguing for more ...

Nowhere is this more true than the icy land surrounding the Arctic Ocean, including the northern coast of Russia. Hoping to map and study the changing shoreline, researchers from the Lomonosov ...

Newsweek's map shows the military bases in the ... While NATO therefore has five more such sites in total than Russia, Russia has the largest Arctic population of any of the states bordering ...