Atle Staalesen

The Norwegian Armed Forces joined forces with the Church of Norway to mark the 200th anniversary of the border treaty with Russia.

A frigate from Russia's Northern Fleet is escorting the LNG carrier Portovyy en route from the Baltic Sea towards Murmansk. The tanker is likely to proceed to the Northern Sea Route.

The surface-to-air missile system will be deployed in the Norwegian brigade based next to Russia's Kola Peninsula.

Amid growing trade between China and Russia, a Chinese business delegation visited Murmansk to inspect the local seaport. The visit comes just days after the first Chinese container carrier sailed the Northern Sea Route to the Russian Arctic port city.

Russian natural gas company Novatek and its partners now have a fleet of 18 tankers serving the heavily sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project.

A company based in the premises of an abandoned shipyard near downtown Murmansk says it has started production of "a new generation of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs)."

On its maiden voyage, the Konstantin Posiet sailed across the Northern Sea Route to the Gulf of Ob, where it loaded LNG at the heavily sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 facility.

An archconservative and xenophobic organisation with ties to the Moscow Patriarchate was represented at the opening of a new cathedral in Belushya Guba, the town that serves Russia's Arctic nuclear test site.

Russia accuses Norway of violating international law, discriminating against Russians, and starting a blockade of the Russian settlement of Barentsburg. In less than two days, propaganda machine TASS has published almost 40 pieces about the arrest of the vessel Professor Molchanov on Svalbard.

Twelve tankers sailed across the Northern Sea Route with more than ten million barrels of oil to Chinese buyers in the first eight months of 2026.