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As an international expedition enters Russian Arctic waters, military activity in the area is high

The Northern Fleet recently conducted live-fire drills in the area, and has stepped up its policing of shipping in the region.

By Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer September 25, 2019
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The Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (or MOSAiC), the largest-ever expedition of its kind, set sail Friday from Tromsø, Norway in the German icebreaker Polerstern, and four days later sailed across the Barents Sea and into the northern parts of the Kara Sea.

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