The West’s newfound interest in the Arctic is making Moscow, which has longstanding geopolitical, economic and strategic ...

As Arctic ice melts, global powers seize new opportunities to extract oil, speed up trade and boost their military presence.

Russia’s newest Yasen-M class submarine on Thursday launched a cruise missile that reached a target about 500 kilometres away ...

Russia has been increasing its military presence near the more than 1,300-kilometre border it shares with Finland, prompting ...

The CSIS report stated the Northern Fleet has two “ice-class” vessels in its number and can call up 46 civilian icebreakers when needed. Some of those icebreakers are armed.

The Delta-IV, the only other type of ballistic missile submarine that is currently in service, was built in the Soviet days and there are five as part of the Northern Fleet. Meanwhile, the ...

These took place near the main naval base of the Russian Northern Fleet, located in Severomorsk, and two military airfields.

Three of the five operational Yasen/Yasen-M boats, Severodvinsk, Kazan, and Arkhangelsk, are now in service with the Russian Navy‘s Northern Fleet, while two others, Krasnoyarsk and Novosibirsk ...

Born on April 16, 1962 in Borskoye, Kaliningrad region, Moiseyev had served “for many years in nuclear submarines of the Northern Fleet from combat element group engineer to missile submarine ...

"As part of a planned exercise with a grouping of heterogeneous strike forces of the Northern Fleet taking place in the waters of the Barents Sea, the flagship of the Northern Fleet—the Pyotr ...