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On the first official day of the work of “YEF-2018” on October 7, the participants - the youth of the northern regions spent in an interesting busy schedule. On October 6, the guys devoted rest and first meeting with Rovaniemi.
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The next meeting of the Northern Forum’s Working Group on Environment and Biodiversity (chaired by Sakhamin Afanasyev, Minister of Ecology, Nature Management and Forestry of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)) will be held on October 8, 2018, in Rovaniemi.
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The next IX Youth Ecological Forum (YEF) "The Voice of Youth of Northern Regions for Biodiversity Conservation" will be held in Rovaniemi, from the 6th to 10th of October. Rovaniemi is the capital of Lapland situated near the Arctic Circle. The city is the gateway to Finland in the Arctic and a popular northern tourism brand associated with Santa Claus, traditional Saami reindeer herding and a careful attitude to nature.
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Co-organised by Interreg Nord Summer Whitefish and Snowchange Cooperative, the Festival of Northern Fishing Traditions has wrapped up successfully in Tornio, Finland. Over 150 small-scale and Indigenous fishermen around the world joined forces to discuss climate change, traditional knowledge, governance and direct exchanges on common challenges.
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September 7, 2018, Festivals of Northern Fishing Traditions are organised by Snowchange to collect the traditional and Indigenous fishermen of Eurasia together in Lippo, Finland, again, was a huge success.
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Author David Ramseur visits Magadan city hall, which marks its sister-city relationship with Anchorage. Ramseur delivered a letter from Mayor Ethan Berkowitz urging renewed sister-city relations. (David Ramseur photo)
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August 29-31, 2018, the International seminar "Atlas of renewable energy in the Arctic " was held by Singapore National University on the project of the Arctic Council AREA with the participation of representatives of the Arctic states: USA, Canada, Russia, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Sweden, as well as experts from countries of Southeast Asia - Singapore, Philippines, Myanmar, Indonesia. This project was initiated by the United States, Canada, and Gwich'in Council International (GCI) and one of projects of the Arctic Council Working Group on Sustainable Development.
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ANCORIDGE (Alaska), Aug 28 - RIA Novosti. The Mayor of Anchorage, Ethan Berkowitz, told RIA Novosti that he wants to find a horse and bind it to serge in a traditional way, a ritual pole from Yakutia, which was established in his city as a sign of good-neighborliness between Russia and the United States and is called the "Totem of Friendship."
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August 22, 2018, Executive Director of the Northern Forum Mikhail Pogodaev held a meeting with the head of the Helsinki City Education Department Liisa Pohjolainen, the principal of Ressu IB World School Ari Huovinen, and the senior lecturer of the Ressu Oksana Mustonen.
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August 22, 2018, the August meeting of educators of the Sakha Republic "New Education in Yakutia" that held every year, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) gathered a round table to discuss around the main theme "Integration with the World educational space".
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Carvers from Yakutsk in Siberia put the finishing touches on the base of a totem pole they carved as a symbol of friendship between Russia and Alaska. (Matt Tunseth/ADN)