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Jan 24, 2025 | 
thebarentsobserver.com | Atle Staalesen
"Every other mother and wife talks with third parties, including the enemy, about the location of their men in Ukraine. This information is compiled by the enemy and used for precision strikes."The warning comes as unofficial numbers of killed and wounded Russian soldiers exceed 800,000. Relatives are desperate for information about their beloved ones.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
arctictoday.com | Atle Staalesen
New radars at the small mountain top significantly expand Russian air defence forces’ eyes and ears over northern Finland and Norway. For decades, there have been military radars on the small mountain top in the Pechenga area. From Iyvara, there is good view over the flat and open landscape that stretches across the Arctic borderland. From the 264 meter high hilltop, Russia’s air defence forces look down at the Pasvik River. And far beyond.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
thebarentsobserver.com | Atle Staalesen
Jump to main content For decades, there have been military radars on the small mountain top in the Pechenga area. From Iyvara, there is good view over the flat and open landscape that stretches across the Arctic borderland. From the 264 meter high hilltop, Russia's air defence forces look down at the Pasvik River. And far beyond.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
arctictoday.com | Atle Staalesen
The Andøya Spaceport is centrepiece in the Technology Safeguards Agreement signed by US and Norwegian authorities. The government in Oslo has long worked for the bilateral deal that is to facilitate enhanced space cooperation between the countries. “This is a significant agreement for Norwegian security,” says Bjørn Arild Gram, Norway’s Defence Minister.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
thebarentsobserver.com | Atle Staalesen
The government in Oslo has long worked for the bilateral deal that is to facilitate enhanced space cooperation between the countries. "This is a significant agreement for Norwegian security," says Bjørn Arild Gram, Norway's Defence Minister. "Space activity is becoming more important for defence cooperation, and Andøya is of great value for Norway as well as for our allies," he underlines.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
rcinet.ca | Atle Staalesen
The Polar Lithium project in the Kola Peninsula is included in the new US sanctions list. The Kolmozero lithium resources are located in vulnerable Arctic lands in the central parts of the Kola Peninsula. According to Polar Lithium, the developing company that is owned by Nornickel and Rosatom, the resources exceed 75 million tons of ore. It will be the biggest lithium mine in Russia, they say.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
thebarentsobserver.com | Atle Staalesen
The Kolmozero lithium resources are located in vulnerable Arctic lands in the central parts of the Kola Peninsula. According to Polar Lithium, the developing company that is owned by Nornickel and Rosatom, the resources exceed 75 million tons of ore. It will be the biggest lithium mine in Russia, they say. Together with a Chinese state enterprise, the two Russian companies intend to produce an annual 2 million tons of ore and 45,000 tons of lithium hydroxide and carbonate.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
arctictoday.com | Atle Staalesen
The port of Lavna is built to help Russian companies re-orient trade and circumnavigate international sanctions. Now the grand infrastructure object in the Kola Bay is itself put on the sanction list. “The deep sea port of Lavna is one of the key projects for reorientation of Russia’s foreign trade,” Igor Shuvalyev, head of state development company VEB, said in 2023. “Lavna will be important for shipments of export goods on the Northern Sea Route,” the former deputy prime minister underlined.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
thebarentsobserver.com | Atle Staalesen
"The deep sea port of Lavna is one of the key projects for reorientation of Russia's foreign trade," Igor Shuvalyev, head of state development company VEB, said in 2023. "Lavna will be important for shipments of export goods on the Northern Sea Route," the former deputy prime minister underlined. Together with several banks, the VEB decided to invest almost 80 billion rubles (€759 million) in the infrastructure project.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
arctictoday.com | Atle Staalesen
New US sanctions deal an unprecedented blow to the companies that over the past decade have developed major oil and gas resources in one of the most remotest parts of the planet. The sanctions package that was announced by the US Treasury on 10 January includes almost all the major extraction companies, infrastructure objects and ships that are involved in hydrocarbon development in the Russian Arctic. The measures could paralyse major parts of the country’s oil industry in the region.
