The radar, called Globus-III, was being jointly established by the U.S. and Norway near the small Norwegian fishing village of Vardø, less than 40 miles from Russia's Kola Peninsula, where a series of Arctic naval bases host nuclear submarines that serve the strategic Northern Fleet. The new radar would replace the existing Globus-II, which Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said Thursday "transmits the information it receives to the United States."