and it lies 500 miles south of the Arctic Circle. Airports in remote spots have runways of packed earth or gravel, making them unsuitable for commercial cargo planes or jet aircraft. Russia’s ...

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

A combat air patrol of American and Canadian fighter jets was scrambled this week after multiple Russian warplanes were spotted in the Arctic, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said ...

Russia has invested heavily in its Arctic military footprint in recent years. Its northernmost Nagurskoye air base on Siberia’s northern coast hosts nuclear-capable strategic bombers ...

Nations like the U.S., Russia and China are jockeying for influence, not only to access the Arctic’s vast natural resources but also to secure strategic military and trading advantages.

Russian officials have held meetings with Indian ... Government officials and senior executives from Novatek PJSC — which leads the Arctic LNG 2 export plant — spoke with counterparts during ...

MOSCOW, September 20. /TASS/. From the military, political and technological point of view, Russia is fully ready to defend its interests in the Arctic region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey ...