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Arctic Winter School 2020 has successfully completed its work in Yakutsk, Russia. It was held at the North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russia from February 25 to March 7, 2020 and was co-organized by the Northern Forum international organization.
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The Ural Federal University has nominated Yamal writer Anna Nerkagi for the Nobel Prize in Literature and submitted her stories Aniko From the Nogo Family and The Silent One to the jury for consideration.
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Daryana Maximova, Acting Executive Director of the Northern Forum became a guest in the TV program "El Iite".
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Food Congress is to be held in Guovdageaidnu (Kautokeino), Norway on March 9-13, 2020.The event will have a youth profile, while the program will include cooking, demonstration of traditional foods and dishes, modern cuisine, preparation and processing, and will include a multitude of indigenous food cultures, traditional indigenous knowledge, traditions, stories and menus.
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The Municipal Educational Institution “Yakutsk City National Gymnasium named after Antonina G. and Nikolay K. Chiryayevs” in Yakutsk calls students from the northern regions to participate in the international interregional distant Olympiad “School of Living in the North (in English).
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The Russian government has submitted to the State Duma a bill on incentives for investors in the Arctic zone. Preferential tax conditions are provided for the development of offshore oil and gas fields in the Okhotsk, Barents, Pechora, Japan and White Seas.
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IOC President Thomas Bach (second from right), South Korean Sport Minister Park Yang-woo (first from right) and Gangwon Province Gov. Choi Moon-soon (center) pose for a photo after the IOC voted to award the Winter Youth Olympic Games 2024 to South Korea.
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President of Russia Vladimir Putin noted that Russia and Canada were neighbors in the Arctic and share the responsibility for the development of the region, at the presentation of 23 foreign ambassadors' letters of credence at the Kremlin.
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Sami National Day is celebrated on 6th February. It was first celebrated in 1993, when the United Nations proclaimed the International Year of Indigenous People open in Jokkmokk, Sweden. Sami National Day is for all Sami people, regardless of the country in which they live.
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On January 27-30, the conference Arctic Frontiers was held in Tromsø, Norway. Employee of the Northern Forum and NEFU graduate student Ekaterina Timofeeva was invited by the "PhD WOKSHOP" educational program for young researchers within the Arctic Frontiers intercity forum.
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President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has instructed the concerned ministries to train additional language teachers for small ethnic groups of the North, Siberia and the Far East, and the relevant instructions have been posted on the Kremlin's website.
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This year the development of aquaculture in the Arctic will be among the industrial priorities of the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic. This is according to Deputy Minister Alexander Krutikov. Together with the Arctic regions, the ministry is drafting a list of measures for developing this sector.