River in Yakutia, Russia

Kharuchi

“It is only when traditional and modern organizations find a way to coexist, we will be able to declare sustainable development, which is the purpose of such a non-governmental organization as the Northern Forum”.

 

Sergey Kharuchi,

Council President, Association of World Reindeer Herders

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Svalbard, April 5 - RIA news, Alexander Kovalev, National flags of Russia and all 85 territorial entities of the Russian Federation, Norway and Serbia also overall record size of more than 1.5 thousand square meters were deployed at the same time to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War near the North Pole.

Over 150 people attended the ceremony to watch flags beautifully laid on polar snow. The ceremony was hosted by a well-known known TV presenter Nikolai Drozdov (порядокслов), chairman of the international environmental movement "the Living Planet".

"Flags were made out of a special high-tech synthetic fabrics for the best demostration Arctic conditions at low temperature and wind, were consolidated into four large paintings: two with 30 flags, one with 12 and another with 17 flags. Three separate large cloth are Russia, Serbia and Norway. Emblems of socially responsible Russian corporations joined the flags, including trust "Arctic coal.

During the WW2, Arctic was heavily used as a battlefield, with Nazi Germany fighting for control over Norway, Russian North and attempting to permanently shut lend-lease shipping from Great Britain to the Soviet Union. The conquest of the Russian North was one of the most important strategic goals of the German command during the WW2. German-Soviet warfare in the North has begun as early as the night of June 22, 1941 and only ended in the fall of 1944 with retreating German troops.

This place was the only sector of the Soviet-German front, where the enemy troops were stopped a few dozen kilometers inside of the state border of the USSR.

27 Mar 2024
XII International Festival of Cinematic Debuts “Spirit of Fire” ended

 

XII International Festival of Cinematic Debuts “Spirit of Fire” ended. Once again, under the leadership of festival president Emir Kusturica, thanks to general partner Gazprom Neft, general [ ... ]

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21 Mar 2024
The call for applications for participation in the special nomination of the International Organization of Northern Regions “Northern Forum” has ended

 

 

On March 20, 2024, the acceptance of applications for participation in the special nomination of the International Organization of Northern Regions “Northern Forum” during the XXII International [ ... ]

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On March 18, Northern Forum Executive Director Vladimir Vasilyev and Deputy Executive Director Daryana Maximova met with Yulia Maloivan, Head of Event Projects of the Andrey Melnichenko Foundation, and [ ... ]

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15 Mar 2024
Arctic BookFest youth festival

 

The Northern Youth Forum, the National Library of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) branch "DTC - Reading Center", ANO "Cholbon" with the support of the Northern Forum initiate the I Interregional [ ... ]

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14 Mar 2024
The selection of applications for participation in the Festival of Cinematic Debuts

 

Since July 2023 Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Ugra has assumed the chairmanship in the International Organization of Northern Regions "Northern Forum". Taking into account the chairmanship [ ... ]

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08 Mar 2024
Happy International Women's Day

 

On behalf of the Northern Forum Secretariat, I warmly and cordially congratulate the beautiful half of humanity on this bright and inspiring spring holiday and wish you all the best!

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