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The first tourist train traveling through Russia's Arctic region carrying passengers heading for Norway set off from Saint Petersburg station on Wednesday with 91 passengers aboard for the inaugural trial journey. (mercopress.com)
This book offers the first comprehensive examination of Russia's Arctic strategy, ranging from climate change issues and territorial disputes to energy policy and domestic challenges. (routledge.com)

Arthur Herman and Dr. Roslyn Layton of China Tech Threat will moderate panels consisting of the world's leading experts on China's march toward the Arctic. (hudson.org)
As the Arctic gains in geostrategic significance, the world's most powerful countries are turning northward. (csis.org)
We need to persuade global financial leaders that the North American Arctic is the world's safest emerging market, with potentially high growth rates, strong rule of law and low currency risk. (theglobeandmail.com)
Home to two-thirds of the world's polar bears, Arctic and Subarctic Canada has many Indigenous cultures and peoples that have co-existed with polar bears for thousands of years, and continue to co-exist with polar bears today. (polarbearsinternational.org)
The majority of the world's population does not live in the Arctic. (windows2universe.org)

On display during Tsentr 2019 will be Russia's new hardware tailored for the Arctic region, including the Tor-M2DT air defense systems and T-80BVM main battle tanks. (foreignpolicy.com)

It beat the record from Fort Yukon Alaska for above the arctic circle.June 27, 1915.100 degrees,or 37.8 celsius. (siberiantimes.com)
The history of Islam in the Arctic starts relatively late in the chronology of Islamic history, the Arctic Circle being at a great distance from traditional Muslim bastions of power and settlement. (wikipedia.org)
The Egyptian professor M. G. El-Fandy has opined that the Quranic ayat in Surah al-Kahf that references Dhu al-Qarnayn's reaching of the land where the sun resided after setting was likely a miraculous reference to the Arctic Circle. (wikipedia.org)
In 2018, a delegation from the United Arab Emirates accompanied Adnan Amin, the Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency based in Abu-Dhabi, to the fifth Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavík, Iceland. (wikipedia.org)
Norway's dependencies of Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands.Whilst the freezing waters of the polar Arctic are not a natural destination for recreational divers, there are a number of important Large Marine Ecosystems (LME¬πs) that are worthy of note.The Kara Sea Large is located within the Arctic Circle on the huge Siberian shelf. (earthdive.com)
In further bad news for Russian private energy firms, Gazprom is not interested in relinquishing to state control the licenses for those offshore fields it is not interested in, according to Gazprom CEO Aleksei Miller, speaking to reporters in Novy Urengoi, above the Arctic Circle. (upi.com)
It wrote that Prime Minister Harper must speak out harshly against any country that believes that they have the right to monitor Canada's activities on this side of the Arctic Circle. (pravda.ru)
Economically, as much as 20 percent of Russia's GDP and its total exports is generated north of the Arctic Circle. (routledge.com)
Wildfires raging in the Arctic Circle smashed last year's records for carbon dioxide emissions, according to scientists at the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS). (cnn.com)
Using CAMS' Global Fire Assimilation System (GFAS) data, scientists estimated that CO2 emissions from fires in the Arctic Circle have increased by more than a third, compared to 2019, with 244 megatonnes of carbon produced from January 1 to August 31, 2020. (cnn.com)
Last summer we discovered from our data that there was very persistent fire activity in the Arctic circle, particularly in the Siberian Arctic," Mark Parrington, senior scientist at CAMS, part of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, told CNN. (cnn.com)
What's been different this year is that we saw through the second half of July and the first couple of weeks of August, a very large cluster of fires burning very far into the Arctic circle and Siberia," he said. (cnn.com)
North of the Arctic Circle (at 66.5 N latitude) you will find the Arctic Ocean surrounded by the continents of Europe, Asia, and North America. (windows2universe.org)
19th-century smallpox victims mummified in the per- mafrost above the Arctic Circle. (cdc.gov)
The International Congress on Circumpolar Health is held every three years in one of the eight nations that ring the Arctic Circle. (cdc.gov)
Suitable environments for B. anthracis at the circumpolar extent extend above the Arctic Circle into portions of Russia, Canada, Iceland, Alaska, and northern Scandinavia. (cdc.gov)

Her multimedia project on the health challenges in the Canadian Arctic, "Bridging the Divide," was a finalist at the 2012 Webby Awards. (rcinet.ca)
The Canadian Arctic makes up approximately one-quarter of the circumpolar region, yet its economic production accounts for less than 2 per cent of the region's aggregate economy. (theglobeandmail.com)
The most popular tectonic model for the origin of the Amerasian Basin involves counterclockwise rotation of the Arctic Alaska-Chukotka microplate away from the Canadian Arctic margin. (usgs.gov)
The detrital zircon data suggest that the Chukotka part of the microplate originated closer to the Taimyr and Verkhoyansk, east of the Polar Urals of Russia, and not from the Canadian Arctic. (usgs.gov)

India's clinginess aside, the United States should pay very close attention to the fact that India will be working with Russia to " explore joint development of technologies for processing rare earth materials " in the Russian Arctic. (nationalinterest.org)
However, in complying with the second round of sanctions enacted a few days before the discovery, Exxon put the $700 million project on hold and-for the time being-pulled out of the Russian Arctic. (nationalinterest.org)
U.S.-Russian Arctic Relations: A Change in Climate? (csis.org)
In total, the sea and land surface area of the Russian Arctic is about 6 million square kilometres. (routledge.com)
From the Saami inhabiting northern Scandinavia east across Siberia to the Chukokta peninsula, the Russian Arctic is home to many Indigenous peoples who coexist with polar bears today. (polarbearsinternational.org)

Her investigative report " Death in the Arctic: A community grieves, a father fights for change ," about the murder of Robert Adams, a 19-year-old Inuk man from Arctic Quebec, received the silver medal for "Best Investigative Article or Series" at the 2019 Canadian Online Publishing Awards. (rcinet.ca)
on the impact a multi-billion euro infrastructure project would have on Indigenous communities in Arctic Europe was a finalist at the 2019 Canadian Association of Journalists award in the online investigative category. (rcinet.ca)
Second, Tsentr 2019 will demonstrate Russia's intentions to maintain a strong presence in the Arctic. (foreignpolicy.com)
Those moves came after the Defense Department released a broader strategy for the region in 2019. (nationaldefensemagazine.org)

December 2021: Submitting first paper from the project 'The Siljan Lake District - Quaternary geology from deglaciation and into present time' to Earth Surface Processes and Landforms: "Deglaciation history and subsequent lake dynamics in the Siljan region, south-central Sweden, based on new LiDAR evidence and sediment records. (lu.se)
November 2021: Our Nature paper dealing with vegetation and megafauna change over the last 50 000 years around the Arctic came out: "Late Quaternary Dynamics of Arctic Biota from Ancient Environmental Genomics. (lu.se)

Vidal explains how the Barents institutions, with support from the Arctic Council, have demonstrated their resilience and ability to bargain for further development despite the tumult of global geopolitical tensions. (washington.edu)
He said that the geopolitical importance of the Arctic and Canada's interests in the region were never bigger than now. (pravda.ru)
As the receding polar ice increases the accessibility of the Arctic region, rival powers have been manoeuvering for geopolitical and resource security. (routledge.com)
The invasion would significantly alter the geopolitical balance in the Arctic region. (foreignpolicy-infocus.org)

The Siberian-based Khanate of Sibir was the most northernmost Islamic state in history, with its territories including parts of the shore of the Arctic Ocean. (wikipedia.org)
The last Tsentr exercise was in 2015, and it involved an estimated 100,000 military personnel and focused on Russia's command and control capabilities in the southeastern corner of the Central Military District, which covers Russia's central Volga, Ural, and Siberian regions. (foreignpolicy.com)
To test existing models for the formation of the Amerasian Basin, detrital zircon suites from 12 samples of Triassic sandstone from the circum-Arctic region were dated by laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). The northern Verkhoyansk (NE Russia) has Permo-Carboniferous (265-320 Ma) and Cambro-Silurian (410-505 Ma) zircon populations derived via river systems from the active Baikal Mountain region along the southern Siberian craton. (usgs.gov)
These ages suggest at least partial derivation from the Taimyr, Siberian Trap, and/ or east Urals regions of Arctic Russia. (usgs.gov)
If it is confirmed that the ridge is a continuation of the Siberian continental shelf, Russia would stake a large portion of the Arctic Ocean, along with the rich deposits of oil and gas. (pravda.ru)
Several cultures inhabit the lands that border the Arctic Ocean including various groups of Inuit people in coastal areas of northern North America, Greenland, and the Siberian region of Russia. (windows2universe.org)

Virtual museum of reindeer transport battalions of the Great Patriotic War will be created jointly by participants from the Murmansk and Arkhangelsk regions, the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO) and the Komi Republic. (northernforum.org)
The situation is similar in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the oil-rich region located along the Pechora Sea coast. (barentsobserver.com)

Sakha Republic and the remote Russian Chukotka region saw "above average" daily total wildfire intensity in August. (cnn.com)

The legal aide office in Kuujjuaq, the administrative capital of the Inuit region of Nunavik, Quebec, will be temporarily shut down in March after an inability to recruit staff for vacant positions. (rcinet.ca)
The leading Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail wrote that Canada may have preferred that the Northwest Passage remained a quiet backwater, as it helps to preserve the fragile Arctic ecosystem and the traditional Inuit way of life. (pravda.ru)
Over 50,000 Inuit live across four regions of northern Canada: Nunavut, Nunavik, Nunatsiavut, and the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. (polarbearsinternational.org)
This region is the traditional territory of the Inupiat, Alaska's Inuit population. (polarbearsinternational.org)
Traditional Inuit way of life was influenced by the harsh climate and stark landscapes of the Arctic tundra from beliefs inspired by stories of the aurora to practicalities like homes made of snow. (windows2universe.org)

Eilís has reported from the Arctic regions of all eight circumpolar countries and has produced numerous documentary and multimedia series about climate change and the issues facing Indigenous peoples in the North. (rcinet.ca)
Her work on climate change in the Arctic has also been featured on the TV science program Découverte, as well as Le Téléjournal, the French-Language CBC's flagship news cast. (rcinet.ca)
President Biden in the Arctic can secure two much-needed successes for U.S.-Russian cooperation on climate change and the environment: financing for research on the implications of permafrost thaw and creating a program to study fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean. (csis.org)
Canada will create a protected marine area in the country's Arctic region, where climate change is taking effect three times faster than global average, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Thursday. (mercopress.com)
The meeting focused on maritime security as climate change opens areas of the Arctic to surface ships for the first time. (rferl.org)
On Monday, 13 December, Russia used its veto in the United Nations Security Council to block a thematic resolution on climate change and security. (sipri.org)
The newspaper wrote that the ice of the Arctic Ocean is melting faster than predicted by the UN commission of experts on climate change. (pravda.ru)
It can be recommended not only for experts and researchers of the Arctic region but also for a broader readership on Russian structural conditions and policies in geographical, demographical, spatial, military, economic and climate change matters. (routledge.com)
The paper highlights the issues that arise if only those impacts that occur in developing states count as loss and damage, considering particularly the obfuscation of the adverse impacts of climate change that affect Arctic indigenous peoples. (lu.se)

People work to build a new fence along the border with Russia, next to Storskog, Norway, Wednesday Aug. 23, 2023. (wkrn.com)

According to the press service of the administration of the Murmansk region, the project to create a virtual museum of reindeer transport battalions became the winner of the All-Russian contest of youth projects of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs. (northernforum.org)
The northernmost parts of mainland Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia are home to the Saami, who are known for their subsistence lifestyle and culture as reindeer herders. (polarbearsinternational.org)
There are only a few species of mammals that can survive the harsh conditions of the tundra including reindeer (caribou) and arctic foxes. (windows2universe.org)
Norway is re-building a section of fence in the Arctic along its border with Russia to contain wandering reindeer, Norwegian officials said Thursday, adding 42 animals have crossed into its eastern neighbor in a costly stroll this year. (wkrn.com)
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Norway is rebuilding a dilapidated reindeer fence along its border with Russia in the Arctic to stop the animals from wandering into the neighboring country - costly strolls for which Oslo has to compensate Moscow over loss of grassland. (wkrn.com)
Norwegian officials said Thursday that so far this year, 42 reindeer have crossed into Russia seeking better pastures and grazing land. (wkrn.com)
The reindeer barrier along the Norway-Russia border spans 150 kilometers (93 miles) and dates back to 1954. (wkrn.com)
One claims is for nearly 50,000 kroner ($4,700) per reindeer that crossed into Russia to graze in the sprawling Pasvik Zapovednik natural reserve in the Russian Murmansk region. (wkrn.com)
The reindeer are herded by the Indigenous Sami people in central and Arctic Norway. (wkrn.com)
Formerly known as the Lapps, the Sami are believed to have originated in Central Asia and settled with their reindeer herds in Arctic Europe around 9,000 years ago. (wkrn.com)

MOSCOW, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Russian state-owned energy firms are preparing to move into the country's offshore polar regions. (upi.com)
The decision is raising concerns among the country's private energy companies that they will be locked out of developing the country's potentially vast arctic hydrocarbon reserves. (upi.com)
Russia's natural resources ministry proposed on Jan. 15 that offshore oil and gas fields on the country's Arctic shelf that isn't wanted by state-controlled firms should be explored and developed by non-state companies. (upi.com)
Earlier this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin named the development of the Arctic, along with the Far East, as the country's strategic priority. (wn.com)

Then, in January, China officially included the Arctic region in its massive Belt and Road Initiative, making Northern Canada, Alaska and Greenland eligible for Chinese investment in railways, roads, pipelines and utility grids. (theglobeandmail.com)
since 1989 I have made extensive field work in polar/subpolar areas of both hemispheres (about 20 expeditions) on Greenland, Svalbard, Siberia in arctic Russia in the north and on Antarctica and Tierra del Fuego in the south. (lu.se)

Arctic Norway's Svalbard archipelago was not a historic home to any particular Indigenous group, and was first discovered by Dutch navigator and Arctic explorer Willem Barentsz in 1596. (polarbearsinternational.org)

The Nordic Council of Ministers, a different forum that brings together the Euro-Arctic states of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, previously promoted the initiative in the 1960s. (washington.edu)
The military alliance's presence in the region could get a boost if Turkey signs off on Sweden and Finland's prospective membership, as both countries have territory in the Arctic. (antiwar.com)
They traditionally live in Lapland, which stretches from northern parts of Norway through Sweden and Finland to Russia. (wkrn.com)

The University of the Arctic (UArctic) is increasing the interest in the use of information and communication technology and open learning resources and networks. (arcticyearbook.com)
The University of the Arctic (UArctic) is a network of universities, colleges, research institutes, and other organizations concerned with education and research in and about the North. (uarctic.org)

Last summer, the icebreaker Xue Long (Snow Dragon) became China's first vessel to transit the Northwest Passage, travelling from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic through the Arctic Ocean archipelago. (theglobeandmail.com)
Glacial melting and maritime traffic are threatening multiple species off the coast of Baffin Island, in Canada's northeastern Arctic archipelago. (mercopress.com)

However, in October, Rosneft finally offered a 10 percent stake to an oilfield in Siberia-a desperate move, which Russia might regret later. (nationalinterest.org)

The first IKEA mall in the Barents Region opened in Haparanda in 2006 and soon got customers driving in from Finnish Lapland, Troms and Finnmark counties in Norway, as well as Murmansk and Karelia in northwest Russia. (barentsobserver.com)

Sea ice occurs in both the Arctic and Antarctic. (grida.no)
En route to Antarctica, take the opportunity to encounter iconic wildlife and immerse yourself in early Antarctic exploration on these sub-Antarctic islands of the South Atlantic Ocean. (quarkexpeditions.com)
Quark Expeditions offers solo travelers the chance to explore the Polar regions with exclusive single-occupancy discounts on some of the most incredible Arctic and Antarctic voyages. (quarkexpeditions.com)

On 26 January 2018 China's State Council Information Office published a white paper clarifying China's vision of the Arctic, its intentions, goals and objectives in the region. (sipri.org)

Just ahead of the event, he announced that his ministry allocates several million kroner extra for the Norwegian Barents Secretariat, a company supporting cross-border cooperation in the region. (rcinet.ca)

sheer geography makes Moscow the largest Arctic player, and the Kremlin has never hidden its desire to keep the lead. (foreignpolicy.com)
The Kremlin has undertaken a 'robust' Arctic militarization plan, reoccupying seven former Soviet bases in the region, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. (rferl.org)

The authors with whom we will speak are among the Arctic experts whose research influences policymakers, business leaders, and media coverage. (washington.edu)
Its efforts have increased public debate on and awareness of Arctic issues among policymakers and research communities as well as timely recommendations on how U.S. policy and the international community should respond to changes in this dynamic region. (csis.org)

Many other Indigenous peoples live in Arctic Alaska outside of the polar bear's range. (polarbearsinternational.org)

Although strengthening Russia's engagement in the Arctic may be a key building block in the development of the region, an over-emphasis on sovereignty issues risks overlooking the importance of economic and strategic developments beyond the region. (sipri.org)
With fewer than one million residents, the North American Arctic has no choice but to seek outside capital for its enormous strategic and economic opportunities. (theglobeandmail.com)
And as the Arctic ice melts, nations near and far are jockeying for pole position in a tussle for economic, military, and strategic dominance. (csmonitor.com)
The Navy in January released its own Arctic strategy, and the Air Force unveiled its strategic blueprint last July. (nationaldefensemagazine.org)
China has linked itself to the region with its Belt and Road Initiative and has strategic ambitions in the High North. (nationaldefensemagazine.org)
Meanwhile, China has taken to calling itself a "near-Arctic nation" and is executing a long-term strategic plan for the region. (adn.com)
Similarly, we are mandating that the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security designate a strategic Arctic port in Alaska that can handle Navy ships and polar-class icebreakers. (adn.com)
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently said that we are entering "a new age of strategic engagement in the Arctic," and that, through diplomacy and increased military investments, we must "sharpen" our focus on the Arctic. (adn.com)
Last year, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that Russia posed a strategic challenge to the alliance in the Arctic, calling for an expanded military footprint in the region. (wn.com)
Russia's control over Alaska would grant them strategic access to the Arctic Ocean and its resources, challenging the United States' influence and potentially leading to further territorial disputes in the region. (foreignpolicy-infocus.org)

The Barents Sea is another shallow sea, bounded by Atlantic water in the south and west, and by Arctic or mixed water in the north and east, with large seasonal and annual changes in ocean climate. (earthdive.com)
Soldiers board an amphibious warfare ship on the Barents Sea shore in western Arctic Russia on April 17. (foreignpolicy.com)

Just south of Arctic tundra areas, the climate is slightly less cold and trees grow in taiga forests. (windows2universe.org)

This week, Arctic Yearbook managing editor Joël Plouffe interviews Florian Vidal, a Ph.D. candidate in international relations at Paris Descartes University in France, and author of "Barents Region: The Arctic Council as a Stabilizing Magnet. (washington.edu)

NATO is looking to expand more into the Arctic, which it calls its "northern flank. (antiwar.com)
NATO really chaps my ass… Is the Arctic a good place for Armageddon? (antiwar.com)
Royal Navy helicopter carrier HMS Illustrious is in the midst of NATO Exercise Cold Response, based in the Arctic. (mercopress.com)
The U.S., Denmark and Norway have access to the Arctic, and they are NATO allies. (pravda.ru)
NATO military expansion in the Arctic undermines regional security and warrants countermeasures from Russia, according to a senior Foreign Ministry official. (wn.com)
This would further escalate the situation and potentially lead to a broader conflict between Russia and NATO. (foreignpolicy-infocus.org)

Members of China's research team set up an ocean profiling float at a short-term data acquisition location near the icebreaker Xuelong, or 'Snow Dragon,' in the Arctic Ocean, on August 18, 2016. (hudson.org)
The Bering Strait and associated islands is a critical area for marine life migrating to and from summering grounds in the Chukchi Sea and elsewhere in the Arctic Ocean. (earthdive.com)
Sea ice grows during the winter months and melts during the summer months, but some sea ice remains all year covering large areas of the Arctic Ocean. (grida.no)
Ice cores gathered across the Arctic Ocean reveal micro-plastics at concentrations two to three times higher than previously recorded. (mercopress.com)
According to the latest forecast for the next 30-40 years, the Arctic Ocean will start to totally clear of ice in summer. (pravda.ru)
People and polar bears coexist along the North Slope of Alaska, the region of coastline north of the Brooks Mountain Range, which spans two seas of the Arctic Ocean: the Chukchi Sea and the Beaufort Sea. (polarbearsinternational.org)
You can see smoke heading out across the Arctic Ocean, you can see it heading out to North America," Parrington said. (cnn.com)
both are in the Arctic Ocean, in an area that is currently covered year-round with sea ice. (windows2universe.org)
Most of the ice in the Arctic Ocean is called sea ice . (windows2universe.org)
On the sea ice polar bears look for their favorite food, seals, which live in the Arctic Ocean. (windows2universe.org)
A multi-million-dollar renovation means that the 128 guests aboard Ocean Adventurer travel to the most remote regions of the world in the utmost comfort. (quarkexpeditions.com)

The presence of Islam in the northern and Arctic regions spans back over a thousand years. (wikipedia.org)

The ranking, which places the regions according to the budget money spent per inhabitant, puts the three tiny in terms of inhabitants regions of Chukotka AO, Nenets AO and Yamal-Nenets AO in front ahead of Moscow as number four. (barentsobserver.com)
According to Finans, Chukotka - the region which for several years was managed by tycoon Roman Abramovich, spends 7-8 times more than the regions in the lower end of the scale. (barentsobserver.com)
Chukotka, Wrangel Island (Russia), and the Lisburne Hills (western Alaska) also have Permo-Carboniferous (280-330 Ma) and late Precambrian-Silurian (420-580 Ma) zircons in addition to Permo-Triassic (235-265 Ma), Devonian (340-390 Ma), and late Precambrian (1000-1300 Ma) zircons. (usgs.gov)

A temperature of 38°C (100.4°F) in the Russian town of Verkhoyansk on 20 June 2020 has been recognized as a new Arctic temperature record by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). (mercopress.com)
In December 2020, HPAI H5N8 was isolated from an asymptomatic poultry worker in Russia . (cdc.gov)

On Jan. 15 Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich's told journalists that the state-controlled Rosneft and Gazprom energy companies are to receive licenses to develop the 12 and 17 arctic continental shelf sectors. (upi.com)

UArctic builds and strengthens collective resources and infrastructures that enable member institutions to better serve their constituents and their regions. (uarctic.org)

For more news from the Barents region visit The Independent Barents Observer . (rcinet.ca)

The conference in Moscow on "The Arctic: Region of Cooperation and Development" organized by the Russian International Affairs Council with IMEMO and CSIS as key partners had a nice venue in the Lotte Hotel and many important quests, including Deputy Foreign Minister Titov and Deputy Secretary of the Security Council Nazarkin (both in the picture). (prio.org)
Vidal looks at how the Arctic Council and the multiple institutions in the Barents Euro-Arctic region benefit each other through their overlapping work on environmental and sustainable development issues in the European north. (washington.edu)
In the web of Arctic governance-with the Arctic Council being somewhere in the center-how do you describe the role of the Barents Euro-Arctic Council (BEAC) as a regional institution? (washington.edu)
How does the Arctic Council influence the regional dynamics in the Barents region, and do the Council and the BEAC complement each other despite their different mandates? (washington.edu)
I think that there is general agreement that the Arctic Council has emerged as a legitimate regional body since its establishment in 1996, with a continued focus on its mandated areas such as the environment, health, and maritime safety issues. (washington.edu)
In practice, what this means for the Barents institutions is that the Arctic Council offers a fertile and resourceful framework for their operations. (washington.edu)
I think the constant convergence of ideas, interests, and goals characterize the way the Arctic Council and BEAC complement each other. (washington.edu)
The Arctic Council and the Arctic Economic Council have several initiatives aimed at making the Arctic more economically attractive. (theglobeandmail.com)
Will Russia's actions in Ukraine affect relations in the Arctic Council? (rcinet.ca)

Distracted by its wish to contain Putin, the Obama administration is forgetting that Russia has close ties with alternative trade partners, namely China and India, which allows Moscow to maintain the political status quo in Ukraine without making significant concessions. (nationalinterest.org)
Close ties with India are nothing new for Russia, and Putin has been consistent about maintaining this relationship over his tenure. (nationalinterest.org)
The plan of joint actions elaborated during your visit to Russia has been successfully implemented," Vladimir Putin noted. (pravda.ru)
On his part, the Canadian Prime Minister said that Mrs. Clarkson had discussed her trip to Russia with him and expressed satisfaction with the visit and the meeting with President Putin. (pravda.ru)

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Department of Defense officials met with representatives of eight Nordic and Baltic nations this week to discuss Arctic security and cooperation as great powers like Russia and China eye the region's natural resources and water routes. (rferl.org)

In comparison to American companies, Chinese and Indian companies now appear more lucrative for Moscow, since they present less of a political risk in light of the deteriorating relationship between the United States and Russia over the crisis in Ukraine. (nationalinterest.org)
After a spike of aggressive rhetoric when Russia planted its flag in the Arctic seabed in 2007, Moscow has attempted to strengthen its position as a key factor in developing an international consensus concerning a region where its relative advantages are manifest, despite its diminishing military, technological, and human capacities. (routledge.com)
Against this backdrop, Korchunov warned that Moscow would respond to the challenge with "a set of necessary measures, including preventive ones," taking into account the goals stated in Russia's foreign policy concept and Arctic strategy. (wn.com)

Tensions run high between Norway and Russia, which share a nearly 200-kilometer- (124 mile-) long border. (woodtv.com)
In an interview with RIA Novosti released on Sunday, Nikolay Korchunov, Russian ambassador-at-large, deplored rising tensions in the Arctic caused by what he called the unconstructive policies of the US and its allies. (wn.com)
Meanwhile, Russian officials have repeatedly stated Moscow's policy in the far North poses no threat, and warned that NATO's "incursion" into the region would only lead to escalating tensions. (wn.com)
The invasion would result in an immediate escalation of tensions between Russia and the United States, potentially leading to a full-blown military conflict. (foreignpolicy-infocus.org)
The Arctic region, already a subject of territorial disputes, would witness heightened tensions. (foreignpolicy-infocus.org)

The legal aide office has also been searching for months to fill the vacant post of secretary, but hasn't found anyone willing to relocate to Kuujjuaq, the Community Legal Centre of Abitibi-Témiscamingue told Eye on the Arctic on Thursday. (rcinet.ca)
Recruitment is such an issue," Nathalie Samson, the director general of the Centre told Eye on the Arctic in a phone interview on Thursday. (rcinet.ca)
Jessica Shadian is director of Arctic 360, a partnership with the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, Trinity College and the Munk School of Global Affairs. (theglobeandmail.com)
Hover at heights atop of the world and be one of the few people to venture deep into the Arctic to reach its famed centre. (peregrineadventures.com)

Thanks to generous transfers from the federal government, several economically weak regions are also well ranked in the study. (barentsobserver.com)

Geographically, Russia controls half of the Arctic coastline, 40 percent of the land area beyond the Circumpolar North, and three quarters of the Arctic population. (routledge.com)

The priority of state policy of the Russian Federation is to make conditions for sustainable social economic development of national regions, including the territories of the Arctic Zone. (bvsalud.org)

India's state-owned ONGC Videsh Ltd desperately approached Rosneft last year in hopes of receiving a stake in a joint venture project, but Rosneft was hesitant to accept, since ONGC Videsh Ltd admitted to lacking the technical expertise to drill in the Arctic. (nationalinterest.org)
So it is considering alternative partners that can provide the technical expertise Rosneft needs to develop its Arctic wells. (nationalinterest.org)

Availability of experience of vaccination against COVID-19 is conditioned by higher level of general health literacy.In the Arkhangelsk Oblast and other circumpolar regions of Russia the programs of increasing loyalty of citizen to measures of population prevention, including vaccine prevention, is to be implemented with consideration of established determinants of of vaccinations against COVID-19. (bvsalud.org)

While Russia's military capabilities are substantial, sustaining an invasion of Alaska would be logistically challenging due to the vast distances and harsh Arctic environment. (foreignpolicy-infocus.org)
The Arctic tundra, vast plains filled with grasses, flowers, mosses and lichen, is located north of the taiga forests in Earth s north polar region. (windows2universe.org)

The revelation that Russia has recruited hundreds of Cuban citizens to fight in Ukraine underscores the desperation of Cuban citizens and the expansion of cooperation between Cuba and Russia. (hudson.org)
The strategy calls for increased cooperation with other Arctic nations but says cooperation with Russia is "virtually impossible" due to the war in Ukraine. (antiwar.com)
In an op-ed published last week, local historians Marit Bjerkeng and Harald Sunde wrote that "official representatives of Russia should not hold any commemoration or appear at memorials on Norwegian soil," saying it will be seen "as an insult to Norway, to Ukraine and to victims of war in all countries. (woodtv.com)
Russia, whose border is just few kilometers from here, is the same country which is using force against its neighboring people of Ukraine […] We cannot accept such policy", he added. (rcinet.ca)

Diplomatic ties between Russia and other nations would be severely strained, leading to broader political and economic ramifications. (foreignpolicy-infocus.org)

The strategy accuses China of trying "to increase its influence in the Arctic through an expanded slate of economic, diplomatic, scientific, and military activities. (antiwar.com)

Distance education in the Northern regions of the Russian Federation contributes to solving Circumpolar North educational problems by delivering quality courses to remote areas, simplifying the organization of joint US-Russian educational and scientific projects and creating international student communities in both countries. (arcticyearbook.com)

The region of Abitibi-Témiscamingue is located in southwestern Quebec but the legal bodies there are also responsible for Nunavik. (rcinet.ca)
There are no resident judges in Nunavik, a region with a population of around 13,000 people. (rcinet.ca)

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - A battle of wreaths erupted Wednesday when a Russian diplomat in the Arctic town of Kirkenes in northern Norway reportedly put his garland on top of Norway's at a monument for the 1944 liberation of the region by Soviet troops. (woodtv.com)
In a sign of growing U.S. interest in the region, President Donald Trump last month said he was 'looking' at the idea of buying Greeland, an autonomous region of Denmark that possesses a large Arctic boundary. (rferl.org)

At the same time, the diplomat signaled that Russia would continue to promote mutual trust in the polar region to support stability, cooperation and dialogue. (wn.com)

Russia's navy said on Tuesday it had discovered five new islands revealed by melting glaciers in the remote Arctic. (mercopress.com)

Who cares about the Arctic besides Greenpeace, anyway? (nationalinterest.org)

As part of the enhanced military presence, the strategy calls for more exercises with allies in the region to "deter aggression in the Arctic, especially from Russia. (antiwar.com)
Many of our competitors are focused on the Arctic, and also many of our allies and partners are concerned about that competition," McConville said. (nationaldefensemagazine.org)

Icebreaker HMS Protector sailed closer to the North Pole than any other Royal Navy ship in history on her first patrol of the Arctic. (mercopress.com)

Organized in the borderlands between Norway and Russia, the Kirkenes Conference has a long tradition as arena for dialogue between the two countries. (rcinet.ca)

Probes taken by South Korean experts will reveal lifestyle of this Arctic boy from 800 years ago. (siberiantimes.com)
During the years in which Ramadan falls at the time of the midnight sun, or when it falls in periods of no daylight, Muslims living in the arctic regions must have some means of determining the proper fasting period. (wikipedia.org)
Actually, it is a very big deal, as it not only sidesteps U.S. sanctions, but more importantly hurts future investment opportunities for American companies in a region that has in recent years seen some of the closest cooperation between Russia and the United States. (nationalinterest.org)
In the first two months of the years, the regions are reported to have increased their revenues with an average of eight percent compared to the same period in 2010. (barentsobserver.com)
The current Prime Minister has been in power for six years, and for the sixth time he appeared in the Arctic. (pravda.ru)
And Navy Secretary Richard Spencer, who recently made his second visit to Alaska in two years to observe the Adak amphibious exercise, has been a staunch advocate for a greater Navy and Coast Guard presence in the Arctic. (adn.com)
People in the Arctic have coexisted with polar bears for thousands of years. (polarbearsinternational.org)

The strategy's unveiling is the latest move in the U.S. armed forces' efforts to better prepare for Arctic warfare. (nationaldefensemagazine.org)
If that is the US's plan for Arctic Warfare, then the US better start planning some extra heavy mechanized ground units to "hold the ground" because the USMC got rid of their M1A1 tanks. (nationaldefensemagazine.org)

The polar bear hunts for seals on the frozen edge of the sea and fish such as Arctic cod, flatfish, and smelt are abundant. (earthdive.com)

Arctic terns breed here, before traveling 36,000 km to winter in Antarctica. (earthdive.com)
Polar exploration includes the physical exploration of the Arctic and the Antarctica. (windows2universe.org)

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