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Murmansk

A view of Murmansk with a smoke stack and other buildings as the sun rises.

The sun sometimes rises: How one Russian city makes it through the polar night

Polar

Murmansk is the largest city in the Arctic Circle. Nowhere else in the world do so many people spend so long in near-perpetual darkness. On Sunday, residents came out to catch the first glimpse of the sun in 40 days.

Melissa O'Reilly at the International Winter Swimming Competition in Murmansk, Russia, in March 2015.

Meet the ice swimmers who put the Polar Bear Club to shame

Sports

Russia plans a Christmas present for Pussy Riot and the Arctic 30 — but is it just packaging?

Conflict & Justice
A passenger train starts, with a green carriage which is believed to transport 30 people who were arrested over a Greenpeace protest at the Prirazlomnaya oil rig seen in the train formation, in Murmansk on the way to St. Petersburg, November 11, 2013.

Greenpeace activist tells of life in a Russian prison

Conflict & Justice

A Soviet dissident father waits, as his Greenpeace activist son sits in a Russian jail

Conflict & Justice
Greenpeace activist Faiza Oulahsen in court at Murmansk (Photo: Reuters)

Russia charges Greenpeace activists with piracy after protest at Arctic oil rig

Environment

Russian authorities have now charged all 30 members of the crew of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise after a protest at an Arctic oil rig last month.

The World

Russian Nuclear Nexus

The Arctic port city of Murmansk is one of the most dangerous places on the planet. That’s because it hosts what may be the world’s largest collection of nuclear waste stored in precarious conditions. Much of the waste floats in rusting atomic submarines that can leak into the rivers and sea. As Bill Gasperini reports, […]