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Also, students of the university are developing design solutions for housing renovation in Norilsk
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The Sakha Republic (Yakutia) was recognized as one of top twenty Russian regions with the highest GRP and has significantly improved the investment climate in 2018.
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A program aimed to restore white Siberian crane population is resumed within the framework of the “Yamal-Arctic” project. Four young cranes from the Oka nursery were taken to Salekhard, and then to the Kunovatsky specially protected area.
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- "On June 12, 1990, the first congress of deputies of the RSFSR adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Russia. It proclaimed the primacy of the Constitution of Russia. The country became known as the Russian Federation. On the same day in 1992, the first open nationwide election of the President of Russia was held.
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Arctic and Northern areas are inhabited approximately by four million people. It is relatively a small number in terms of the size of the world population. Nevertheless, it is important to note that the North and the Arctic are the “kitchen” where forms weather of the whole world. Moreover, it is a place which keeps vast supplies of fossil fuels
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During the European Polar Boards Spring 2019 Plenary Meeting in Lisbon, elections were held for two Executive Committee positions. The EPB is happy to announce that Halldór Jóhannsson, Member Representative for RANNIS in Iceland and director of the Arctic Portal, and Vito Vitale, Member Representative for CNR in Italy, were both elected, - EPB reports.
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MOSCOW, May 23 - RIA News. Moscow is in favor of forming an international partnership to preserve a zone of peace in the Arctic, Nikolai Korchunov, ambassador-at-large for the international cooperation in the Arctic, told RIA Novosti. "We are not in favor of confrontation and rivalry, but in cooperation and complementary efforts of each other, in forming an international partnership, including within the framework of the Arctic Council, in the interests of preserving the Arctic region as a zone of peace, stability and low military tension" he declared.
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The Russian President Vladimir Putin signed on May 13 the decree on the expansion of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation at the expense of eight regions of Yakutia. Earlier territories of five coastal areas of Yakutia were a part of the Arctic zone.
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I took a short-term intensive course as a graduate student at the invitation of the Norwegian side from April 1 to April 5, 2019 in Buda, Norway. The purpose of this course was to study and analyze interdisciplinary and theoretical research management approaches in the context of the High North. During the educational event participants also had the opportunity to review existing classifications of types and levels of management, including public, global and corporate governance.
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This week Arkadii Diodorov started in the position of Acting Executive Director of the Northern Forum Secretariat. Olga Timofeeva-Tereshkina, who led the Secretariat previously, was appointed to serve as a Head of Secretariat of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia).
The Northern Forum Secretariat congratulates Olga Timofeeva-Tereshkina and wishes much success in her new role!
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At the 11th Arctic Council Ministerial meeting in Rovaniemi, Finland, Ministers of the eight Arctic States, leaders from the six indigenous Permanent Participant organizations and the Chairs of the six Working Groups of the Arctic Council met to mark the passing of the Chairmanship from Finland to Iceland.