At its nearest point, Alaska is just 2.4 miles from Russia. In the remote Bering Sea, Little Diomede Island (belonging to the US) sits next to Big Diomede Island (part of Russia). In between them lies ...
Days before the United States introduced its global system of tariffs, Chinese and Russian officials held a three-day summit in Moscow. Citing a “friends forever, enemies never” principle as the ...
SINGAPORE, July 17 (Reuters) - A liquefied natural gas (LNG) vessel targeted by U.S. sanctions docked at Russia's Arctic LNG 2 plant this week, the second sanctioned vessel to stop at the plant so far ...
"We see that Arctic cooperation is also very possible in our international context. For example, between the far east of Russia and the west coast of the US." Putin did not give details, nor did Trump ...
Moscow sees China, India, and other Asian powers as critical for the future of the Northern Sea Route, but their involvement remains limited. Russia’s ambitions to expand the global utilization of the ...
The sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project in Russia has accelerated cargo loadings and shipments in recent weeks, in a sign that the facility has now found its first customer after more than a year, and new ...
Greenpeace could not have chosen a worse time to set sail for the Russian Arctic. On Sept. 15, as the eco-activists were making their way into the Barents Sea, Russia’s main news networks were ...
Russia is rapidly militarizing the Arctic, forging closer ties with China, and exploiting NATO weaknesses. The Arctic could be a future site of international competition. As American attention over ...
Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 project lifted production to record levels in late August as summer ice conditions opened the Northern Sea Route, allowing additional cargoes to reach Asia, according to ...
On a wind-blasted plateau high above the most northerly town on Earth, arrays of white spherical domes stand like sentinels in the Arctic snow. Hidden from casual observers below in Longyearbyen, the ...
The US and Canada want more icebreakers to counter Russia and China in the Arctic, as the polar region — and competition for it — heats up.
Russia in the Arctic is a "grave concern" to NATO, Iceland's foreign minister has said, as Moscow forges ahead with its military buildup and economic plans for one of the most austere, but ...