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STANBUL, April 27 (Reuters) – A Russian naval intelligence ship sank off Turkey’s Black Sea coast on Thursday after colliding with a vessel

by Manuel Mogato (Reuters) Russian navy vessels arrived in the Philippines on Thursday for joint exercises as part of a drive for new security ties under

By Eric Roston and Blacki Migliozzi (Bloomberg) Eight countries control land in the Arctic Circle. Five have coastlines to defend. The temperature is

MOSCOW, April 19 (Reuters) – A cargo ship heading from Russia to Turkey sunk off the coast of Crimea early on Wednesday morning and 11 of the crew are

Russia’s largest shipping company SCF Group has selected Swiss-headquartered Winterthur Gas & Diesel (WinGD) to provide the duel-fuel engines for the

By Dina Khrennikova and Elena Mazneva (Bloomberg) — Vladimir Putin wanted to remake Josef Stalin’s quest for a greater foothold in the Arctic into a

Russian shipping company Sovcomflot (SCF) says its new arctic shuttle tankers have now transported one million tonnes of crude oil from the Yamal Peninsula to

By Andrew Osborn MURMANSK, Russia, Jan 30 (Reuters) – The nuclear icebreaker Lenin, the pride and joy of the Soviet Union’s Arctic great game, lies

By Alex Sazonov (Bloomberg) — Peering into the mid-morning darkness from his sixth-floor office on Russia’s Kola Bay, Vitaly Orlov strains to see

A Russian convoy of two bulk carriers and two icebreakers are stuck in ice in part of the Northeast Passage off northern Russia.  The two bulk carriers,

A Russian arctic shuttle tanker has been certified in compliance with the International Maritime Organization’s upcoming Polar Code regulations for

By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW, Dec 26 (Reuters) – Russia expanded its search on Monday for the remains of a military plane that crashed into the Black Sea,

By Polina Devitt and Andrew Osborn MOSCOW, Dec 25 (Reuters) – A Russian military plane carrying 92 people, including dozens of Red Army Choir singers,

By Henry Meyer and Ilya Arkhipov (Bloomberg) — With two decades of deal-making in Russia’s vital oil industry under his belt, Rex Tillerson is Vladimir

By Guy Faulconbridge and Jonathan Saul LONDON, Nov 22 (Reuters) – Russian tankers have smuggled jet fuel to Syria through EU waters, bolstering military

Russia is set to begin dismantling the nuclear icebreaker Sibir marking the first time ever that a nuclear-powered icebreaker has been sent for recycling. The

By Andrew Osborn and Simon Johnson MOSCOW/STOCKHOLM, Oct 26 (Reuters) – Russia is sharply upgrading the firepower of its Baltic Fleet by adding warships

(Bloomberg) — U.K. warships are monitoring a Russian aircraft-carrier group sailing past Britain’s eastern coast to the Mediterranean Sea to supplement

A Russian icebreaker has succesfully towed an iceberg weighing approximately 1 million tons, according to the oil company Rosneft. The tow was part of a test

By Katya Golubkova and Kira Zavyalova MOSCOW, Sept 30 (Reuters) – The privatisation of a 25 percent stake in Russian state shipping firm Sovcomflot may