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