The retired major general that for many years headed the security service in Murmansk and played a key role in an influence ...

Temperatures reached a high of 11.2 degrees Celsius in Kilpisjärvi on Friday, compared to a high of -1.7 degrees on the same ...

Russia has a major shortage of ice-class cargo fleet ships. According to Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Trutnev, Russian ...

According to President Alexander Stubb, it is “urgent and essential” to improve road, rail and air connections in Northern ...

Russia and Belarus make a new attempt to hold a large strategic military exercise along their western borders after last year ...

In October 1944, Soviet troops launched its counter-attack on the Nazi German troops that for more than three years had tried to capture Murmansk. In only few weeks, the Red Army swept over Hitler’s ...

Popular Russian singer Monetochka, with more than 3 million followers on TikTok and millions of views on YouTube, has been put on a wanted list by Russian authorities, news website Mediazona reports.

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In the course of the last two years hundred of sorties have been flown from Olenya airbase on the Kola Peninsula with cruise missiles targeting Ukraine. Drones are now hitting back, with at least ...

Hundreds of sorties in the course of the last two years are flown from Olenya air base on the Kola Peninsula with cruise missiles targeting Ukraine. Drones are now hitting back, with reported attacks ...