Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Alexandra Land of the Franz Josef Land Archipelago ... will talk to employees of the Omega field base in the Russian Arctic National Park who ...

We have come north with Romanenko into the high Russian Arctic, to an archipelago known ... Elsewhere in Franz Josef Land, a Soviet air base supported long-range bombers that took off and prowled ...

More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Moscow has built more than 475 military ...

ARKHANGELSK, September 3. /TASS/. A Russian photographer Sergei Gorshkov will make a book about Franz Josef Land - the northernmost archipelago in Russia and Eurasia. According to the Russian ...

Russia's navy said on Tuesday it had discovered ... previously mapped as a peninsula of Hall Island, part of the Franz Josef Land archipelago, west of Novaya Zemlya. Moiseyev said names for ...

As NATO and Russia continue to expand their influence in the Arctic, the locations of major military bases show the extent ... those situated in Franz Josef Land, Kotelny Island, and Wrangel ...