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Despite all of talking about the future development of the Arctic, the region lives in conditions of acute shortage of railways and roads, and water transport aircraft.
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Governor of Krasnoyarsky krai Victor Tolokonsky, has participated in a joint meeting of Russian Federal Presidium of the Expert Council on Arctic and Antarctic during a working visit to Moscow. The council was chaired by the Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko and Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, chairman of the State Commission on the Development of the Arctic, Dmitry Rogozin.
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Head of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) Egor Borisov spoke at a joint meeting of the Presidium of the Expert Council for the Arctic and Antarctic to the Council of the Federation with the members of the State Commission on the Development of the Arctic.
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Summary of the 12th General Assembly
12th General Assembly of the Northern Forum has finished – the participants went home or continued their way to a next event. Finally we can summarize the last few days and what they meant for the Northern Forum. The Assembly was held in Yakutsk for the first time since 1997.
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4 ноября 2015 года состоялось закрытое совещание Комитета региональных координаторов Северного Форума. Цель совещания - обзор состояния организации, рассмотрение предлагаемых резолюций, обсуждение перспектив развития.
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JAMSTEC Japanese agency researchers have taken part in a Cold Lands interdisciplinary workshop, held in Sakha North Eastern Federal University. Researchers Rikie Suzuki and Hisashi Sato have presented a research on Eastern Siberian ecosystems at global warming.
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ON THE GREENLAND ICE SHEET — The midnight sun still gleamed at 1 a.m. across the brilliant expanse of the Greenland ice sheet. Brandon Overstreet, a doctoral candidate in hydrology at the University of Wyoming, picked his way across the frozen landscape, clipped his climbing harness to an anchor in the ice and crept toward the edge of a river that rushed downstream toward an enormous sinkhole.
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Khibiny Mountains are the highest ones on the Kola Peninsula. The Khibiny resemble in shape a horseshoe openned to the east. The mountains are very old and therefore, not high, but there you can find picturesque valleys, untouched arctic and glacial landscapes which remained from the Neolithic period, as well as the highest waterfall in the north. The Khibiny Mountains have good conditions for downhill skiing, trekking, camping and any outdoor activities.
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decline in diamond prices because of lower growth in Chinese jewelry demand is dulling the appeal of Canada's Arctic diamond industry, with the resulting drop in exploration hurting the region's long-term prospects. Exploration spending in Canada's diamond-rich Northwest Territories, the world's third-biggest producer, is forecast to drop 54 per cent this year, according to a Canadian government estimate earlier this year. That is bad news for an industry where even profitable deposits can take 10 to 20 years to develop into a mine.
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Mr. Craig Fleener, who currently serves as a Senior Advisor on Arctic Policy at the state of Alaska Office of the Governor, has registered to take part in the General Assembly of the Northern Forum. For several last years, the state of Alaska has not taken part in the Northern Forum events; yet for the 12th General Assembly, 10 participants of the state have confirmed their plans to come and take part.