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On September 4-6, the 5th Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) was held in Vladivostok, Russia. As Deputy Prime Minister and Plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District, Yuri Trutnev, stated at the final press conference, 270 agreements worth over 3.4 trillion rubles were signed at the EEF. This is 13% more than a year earlier.
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The Russian center for Arctic research mounted a commemorative geographical sign marking Europe’s easternmost point at the top of Ngodyayakha Mountain in the Polar Urals nature park. The sign is 5 meters high, weighs 2 tonnes and is decorated with a heraldic symbol of Russia, a two-headed eagle, at the top.
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OneWeb — an aerospace company with plans to beam internet connectivity from space — announced plans today to provide “fiber-like internet” coverage to the Arctic starting as early as 2020. Using the company’s planned mega-constellation of satellites, the company says it can provide high-speed internet to homes, boats, and planes all located above the 60th parallel north latitude.
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The Russian Ministry of Natural Resources has completed additional scientific research to expand Russia's borders in the Arctic, tells head of the ministry Dmitry Kobylkin at the site of the Eastern Economic Forum.
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In September, the Northern Sustainable Development Forum will be launched in Yakutsk, where representatives from China, Japan, and South Korea will take part. How to focus attention on problems of the Arctic?
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Russia and India are actively exploring the possibilities of joint development of hydrocarbons on the Arctic shelf and the Russian Far East, tells Assistant to the President Yuri Ushakov.
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The International youth forum-festival Peace Worldwide! has traditionally opened its doors in the Republic of Bulgaria in the town of Kiten from 23 August till 28 August 2019.
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Evidence recovered from beneath the bitter cold of Canada’s Arctic Ocean will shed new light on the final days the ill-fated expedition of the British polar explorer Sir John Franklin, who disappeared with his crew in 1845.
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The hydrographs of the Northern Fleet, who are members of an expedition to the Franz Josef Land archipelago, have confirmed the discovery of five new islands in the Kara sea.
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One hundred years have passed since the birth of Yuri Sergeyevich Kuchiev, the Arctic captain, as he was called by polar sailors. Under his command in 1977, the Arktika nuclear-powered vessel was the first in the world of surface ships to reach the North Pole. Yuri Kuchiev graduated from the Leningrad Higher Engineering School named after Admiral Makarov. During the Great Patriotic War he served as part of the convoys of the Northern Fleet. When plotting the route on the Arctic icebreaker, Kuchiev used long-term observations of the northern ice. The expedition included more than 200 people - the crew, scientists and specialists.
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In Murmansk, a ceremony was held to send the world's first industrial floating nuclear power unit (FPU) "Akademik Lomonosov" to the place of operation in Chukotka, Ria news correspondent reported.
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In September, the Northern Sustainable Development Forum will be launched in Yakutsk. The Forum is being held in Yakutsk for the first time and claims to become one of the leading platforms for discussing the problems and prospects of sustainable development of the Arctic and the implementation of practically significant projects within the framework of the Northern Forum international organization. We will talk about the significance of the upcoming event and preparations for it today with the acting Executive Director of the Northern Forum international organization Daryana Maximova.