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Russia's northernmost base projects its power across Arctic

by Kostya ManenkovVladimir Isachenkov
| May 20, 2021 12:03 AM

NAGURSKOYE, Russia (AP) — During the Cold War, Russia's Nagurskoye airbase was little more than a runway, a weather station and a communications outpost in the Franz Josef Land archipelago.

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