1/15 Trump reportedly said multiple times last year he wanted to pull the US from NATO, acc to the NYT. The news came on Monday amid the Nordic defense ministers meeting.／Training of conscripts in each other countries would bring a historic turn to the Nordic military cooperation.／
11/2 The aviation authority has as a consequence of the reports this week issued a caution advice about irregular behavior reported on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) for the airspace covering eastern Finnmark, including the airports of Kirkenes and Vadsø. (
Over the last few months, the number of attempted illegal border crossings on the Arctic migrant route has increased.／First, two citizens from Iran & three from Pakistan were detained when they tried to cross the border. Then, another group with citizens from Eritrea, Somalia and Yemen was stopped
3/5 EASTLANT 17 in May. The exercise took place outside the island of Senja in northern Norway, not far from Tromsø／ Arctic Challenge／ the Zapad-2017, Haga Lunde said Iskander missile systems were moved to an area close to the Norwegian border.
10/24 The Northern Brigade is the only brigade in the Norwegian Army and is based in mid-Troms, well north of the Arctic Circle. The brigade consists of several battalions, including a motorized infantry, armoured vehicles, combat engineering, intelligence, artillery, logistics, communication&medics
9/15The combat group today set out from Severomorsk, the Northern Fleet headquarters.In addition to the 252m long nuclear-powered «Pyotr Veliky», the fleet includes torpedo boat «Admiral Ushakov» &missile ships «Rassvet» «Aisberg», submarine hunters «Snezhnegorsk», «Brest» «Yunga»
4.21 The sharp reaction from the Russian Foreign Ministry on the upcoming meeting in the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Longyearbyen, Svalbard,〜the Russian ministry says that the NATO meeting is «at odds with the spirit of the 1920 Svalbard Treaty» and that it is part of a «provocative policy»
Nilsen was traveling with a delegation from the Danish Parliament´sCommittee ofFA.For theMPs,the trip to Murmansk was to mark a new&more conciliatoryDanish approach towardsRussia.Instead,they got a live-time feel with resurgentRussia’s handling of independent civil society representatives&the med
12.7 According to Anastasia Zotova, a group of ten former inmates are ready to report about cases of torture and mistreatment in the prison. The documentation will be handed over to the Investigative Committee in Karelia, Zotova says to newspaper Kommersant.
Norway absent from massive US-led multinational reinforcement drill in northern Europe next year
Fishermen witnessed nuclear submarine drama
Norway and Finland to further enhance military cooperation
Amid Putin and Trump turmoil, Nordic Defense ministers finds stronger unity
«Russia is our biggest concern»
Norway well prepared to meet Russian jamming
Pilots warned of jamming in Finnmark | The Independent Barents Observer
Russian border guards detain more migrants seeking Arctic route
FSB detains more groups of migrants heading to Norway
Russian bombers simulated an attack against this radar on Norway's Barents Sea coast
Helicopter crash might add power to Russia’s push for new base on Svalbard
Norway orders snap drill of 2,000 soldiers above Arctic Circle
Northern Fleet announces big-scale exercise
Powerful Navy flotilla sets out from Kola Bay as Russia starts Zapad-2017
«Russian Svalbard protest totally without merit»
World’s biggest nuclear sub to show off in the Baltic
Expelled Barents Observer editor is on sanction list
Barents Observer Editor Thomas Nilsen is declared unwanted in Russia by FSB
Russia builds Arctic air defense shield
Ildar Dadin is moved from Karelia