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.