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.

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 ...

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

There's still no word on whether the Barneo camp near the North Pole will open, but elsewhere in the Arctic, several ...

as a Newsweek map shows the strategic Arctic region where they were intercepted by allied jets. Two B-52H Stratofortresses conducted the training with Dutch, Danish and Swedish fighter jets as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TASS/. The ice thawing in the Arctic Ocean may cause certain problems and may affect the Northern Sea Route navigation, an expert in meteorology and climate at the Saratov State University ...

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 ...