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There have been interesting developments around Svalbard, culminating, for the moment, in Norway seizing the Russian ship Professor Molchanov, employed in the transport of supplies to Barentsburg. That this comes as Operation Atlantic City unfolds near Jan Mayen is no coincidence. Norway is very ready to make Svalbard untenable for Russian habitation - Barentsburg is already a bleak existence, compared to Longyearbyen.
Rob Lee
“Deep in Arctic waters near the remote Svalbard archipelago this spring, NATO allies caught Russian subs training to unleash a secret weapon designed to disable critical undersea cables without leaving any fingerprints. The clandestine Russian operation, described to Reuters by