TASS/. The Russian embassy in Oslo has asked Norway’s authorities to ensure transit of goods to Russian settlements on the island of Spitsbergen, Russia’s Consul General on Spitsbergen Sergey ...

Russia's ultranationalistic and xenophobic party leader Sergei Mironov proposes to Russify names and places across the Arctic ...

Article 3 of the Treaty on Spitsbergen of 1920 stipulates free access to the archipelago for citizens from the signatory states. The one-sided sanctions [from Norway] do not in any way cancel this ...

This striking satellite shot shows a pair of simultaneous phenomena painting parallel swirls in the sea and sky surrounding Bear Island ... is located in Norway's Svalbard archipelago and is ...

Andrey Gurulev, a pro-Putin MP and TV mouthpiece for the Kremlin, also believes Russia should take over Spitsbergen—an Arctic island belonging to Norway where military activity is prohibited ...

Not too long ago I was the guide on a wildlife-photography trip to Svalbard, an archipelago halfway between Norway’s mainland ... on the southern tip of Spitsbergen island.