Norway’s defence minister has warned that Moscow must not be allowed to control the Bear Gap, saying the Arctic corridor ...

Young people in Russian military uniforms marched through the Russian settlement of Barentsburg on the Svalbard archipelago on May 9, in what Norwegian experts say was a propaganda move aimed at ...

The Russian-run settlement of Barentsburg on Norway’s Svalbard archipelago has become a focal point in the Arctic’s growing geopolitical competition. While Norway retains sovereignty, Russia is ...

Pictured taken on May 16, 2024 from a boat shows the view of Longyearbyen, located on Spitsbergen island, in Svalbard Archipelago, northern Norway. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP) While global ...

Explore the Russian coal mining town of Barentsburg, located near the North Pole on the Svalbard archipelago, Norway. This town, owned by Russia and primarily populated by Russians, Ukrainians, and ...

Barentsburg, a Russian settlement on the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.(Pierre-Henry Deshayes/AFP/Getty Images) The organisation that is closely connected with the Kremlin and the Russian ...

HELSINKI - Russia accused Norway of militarising the Svalbard archipelago, a claim Norway denied in a comment to news agency NTB after Russia on Friday had summoned the Norwegian ambassador to Moscow ...

STOCKHOLM, October 14. /TASS/. Russia’s consulate general in Barentsburg on Spitsbergen, Norway, suspends offering consular services from October 15. "From October 15, 2024, services of the Russian ...

In Barentsburg, Norway, a coal mining town in the high Arctic, Ukrainian residents lived side by side with Russians. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, however, Ukrainians have left the ...

Warning: Graphic content War may be far away but tensions from the Ukraine conflict are causing an unprecedented chill in a remote Arctic town where Russian and Ukrainian coalminers have worked side ...

Long ReadDespite being on Norwegian territory, Barentsburg's residents are Russians and Ukrainians who have come to work here. Since the invasion of Ukraine, it has found itself at the center of a ...