United States Flag Code Title 4, United States Code, Chapter 1 As Adopted by the National Flag Conference, Washington, D.C., June 14-15, 1923, and Revised and Endorsed by the Second National Flag Conference, Washington, D.C., May 15, 1924. Revised and adopted at P.L....
Russian military An-26 aircraft. Illustration photo: British Air Force Northern Fleet soldiers killed in plane crash in occupied Crimea A military An-26 aircraft crashed into rocky terrain east of Sevastopol, killing seven crew members and 23 personnel on board....
A Tu-95MS long-range strategic bomber during takeoff from the Olenya base in the Murmansk region. Photo: Russian Ministry of Defence Bombers from Kola take part in major daytime attack Two Tu-95MS aircraft from Olenya Air Base participated when Russia carried out one...
The wrecked Northern Fleet submarine Komsomolets rests on the seabed at a depth of 1,680 metres (5,510 ft). Photo: Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority 37 years on, no signs of leakage from plutonium warheads Results from two new studies of seabed...
After Norway’s 198-kilometre-long land border with Russia, this is where Finland takes over. The northernmost border post is marked with a cairn, separating the three countries. What follows is 1,340 kilometres of the Finnish-Russian border. Today, that...
The Smeerenburg glacier seen from the Amsterdam island, northwest on Svalbard. Photo: Thomas Nilsen The Emirates joins Svalbard Treaty The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has officially joined the Svalbard Treaty, in a move said to strengthen the country’s role in Arctic...