Temperature rises in Nato’s northern gateway; the many faces of Vladimir Putin; Palmyra’s majestic ruins
A military nerve centre concealed deep in the bowels of a remote Norwegian mountain may sound like something from a James Bond movie. But this is Nato’s northern gateway, where the alliance’s sophisticated monitoring equipment keeps tabs on the movements of the Russian Northern Fleet.
Much of the focus surrounding Vladimir Putin’s plans to restore Russian spheres of influence has been on Ukraine, Georgia and the Baltic, but is the temperature also rising in Europe’s arctic extremes? For the Guardian Weekly’s cover story this week, diplomatic editor Patrick Wintour ventures into the quartz-and-slate tunnels of Bodø to find out.
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