Four LNG tankers currently sailing together on the Northern Sea Route changed their names, flag states, and managers as they ...

In a surreal case filed with a British court, the Russian fishery tycoon puts the blame on our newspaper for damages ...

The statement comes after Wang Yi, China's foreign minister, met with Russia’s Nikolai Patrushev in Beijing on 12 October. Patrushev, a former director of the FSB who currently serves as aide to ...

The first official trip by Norway’s new king, Haakon, included a visit to Jarfjord and the Norwegian conscripts guarding the ...

Russia’s nuclear submarine industry is a key target of the EU’s largest-ever sanctions package against Moscow. The measures ...

For several days, the Ya Qing Hai Yang (IMO 1021570) has been drifting by the Aynov Islands, less than 30 km from Russia’s ...

Twenty years ago—on 7 October 2006—journalist and writer Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead in the stairwell of her apartment ...

Military-style games involving families from all over Russia aim at 'strengthening traditional values and ties between ...

There is a plan under development to exchange political prisoners held in Russia for relief from economic sanctions. On the surface this may seem to be a win-win on the path toward peace in Ukraine, ...

As part of the exercise, soldiers from Russia’s Northern Fleet were put ashore by helicopters and amphibious vessels. Once landed, the soldiers fought a fictitious adversary on the sandy banks of one ...

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