The allied militaries did not specify where within the Arctic Circle the exercise took place, but the area is home to Russian ...

The route’s promise The NSR presents a compelling alternative to the Suez Canal, reducing the sailing distance between Europe and Asia from 21,000 km to 13,000 km.

If you add a few kilometers at either end of a well-traveled tourist route, does that make it an original traverse? One UK ...

Geopolitical rivalries are intensifying in the Arctic but Russia is willing to cooperate with foreign partners, including ...

In the 1930s, the USSR started building hundreds of lighthouses along this Arctic route. With no keepers, and no other form of electricity available they would run on nuclear energy. Video by ...

The Northern Sea Route connects Europe and East Asia, which makes the Arctic region increasingly important geopolitically. The vessel route is significantly shorter than the southbound route that ...

As part of the expedition, the participants will sample water, snow and lichens along the Northern Sea Route for scientific purposes MOSCOW, March 28. /TASS/. A new historical project - Russian ...

TASS/. The Northern Sea Route development is closely linked to the development of Arctic cities along it, said Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Maxim Oreshkin during a ...

A 1 billion dollar project to connect Japan and Europe with a fiber-optic cable along the Arctic seabed is underway with a survey of the proposed route, which bypasses Russia. In April ...

The route, made viable by the melting of Arctic sea ice due to climate change, runs from Murmansk near Russia’s border with Norway to the Bering Strait near Alaska. “As for the Northern Sea ...