aisen nik on north

The governor of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) Aisen Nikolaev held a meeting on the republic's national projects and listened to the members of cabinet ministers' report who are responsible for the projects' implementation.

yanao olenevody

The reindeer courses were opened in the Nenets Agrarian Technical School this year. Since the courses are new, teachers from Yamal visited Norway to gain experience of reindeer herders training and business dealing in the area reindeer husbandry.

nao sao project3

Arkhangelsk Oblast, Nenets Autonomous okrug and NARFU signed a cooperation agreement. The parties agreed to join forces to create the Research and Education Center “Russian Arctic: new materials, technologies, and research methods”.

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On September 24-28, a conference on the sustainable development of the northern territories will be held in Yakutsk. This was announced by the head of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Aisen Nikolaev at a meeting with the chief editors of regional media.

Canada strategy1

On September 10 2019, the Honourable Carolyn Bennett, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations launched Canada's Arctic and Northern Policy Framework.

ice melts

The average ice area in the Arctic region was 35% less in August 2019 than the average for this month, Copernicus European Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) reports.

eastern economic forum

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.

Northernmost point

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.

Internet Arctic

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.

Ministry of nature

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.

Arctic Asia

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?

Russia India shelf

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.