As the rivalry in the high North heats up, Russia has expressed concern that NATO-member Norway is militarizing ‘Svalbard,’ an island territory in the Arctic that remains under Norwegian control but holds immense strategic value for Moscow.
In a statement last week, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Moscow has expressed its concerns to Norwegian Ambassador to Russia Robert Kvile on Oslo’s increasing militarization of the Svalbard archipelago, TASS News Agency reported.
The statement read: “On March 14, during a working meeting at the Russian Foreign Ministry with the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway Robert Kvile, the Russian side expressed its concern over Norway’s growing militarization of the Svalbard archipelago.” Läs artikel