More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Moscow has built more than 475 military bases along its northern border.

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 ...

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, ...

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

Russia controls about half of the Arctic’s shoreline and a huge share of its oil and gas reserves. For now, Chinese ships may not be pushing to use the Northern Sea Route (Russia charges stiff ...

Hoping to map and study the changing shoreline, ... Explorers with the Arctic Archipelagoes project and Russian Arctic National Park confirmed its formation in 2018 and 2021, ...

Hoping to map and study the changing shoreline, ... The archipelago sits in the Arctic Ocean, north from western Russia. Google Translate was used to translate the news releases from the Russian ...

If the CLCS agrees with it, Russia’s continental shelf in the Central Arctic Ocean would seem to consist of 516,400 square nautical miles (684,000 square miles) — an area larger than Libya ...

For years, Russia has been using the Norwegian town of Kirkenes, which borders its nuclear stronghold, as a laboratory, testing intelligence operations there before replicating them across Europe.

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 ...