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Last Friday President Vladimir Putin launched the first loading of liquefied natural gas at $27 billion Yamal LNG project. This project will allow Russia to fulfill a plan to double its share of the global LNG market by 2020 from around 4% now.
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All-Russia scientific conference "Regional Problems of Russian Far East Development" devoted to 80th anniversary of Robert Moiseev, a famous scientist of Kamchatka, will take place in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on December 6-7.
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VII International Forum "Arctic: Today and the Future" started in Saint Petersburg on December 4. This year the Forum brought together over 1600 participants. Key issues on this year's agenda are a development of reference zones and monocities, industrial cooperation and modern communication systems, environmental preservation and development of ecotourism in the Arctic. The meeting of the State Commission for Arctic Development chaired by Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Dmitriy Rogozin will traditionally take place in the margins of the Forum.
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The protocol of intentions between the Northern Forum and Torum Maa open-air ethnographic museum, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – Ugra, was signed on the margins of the international research conference “Siberian Ugric People in a Necklace of Subarctic Cultures: Common and Unique” held in Khanty-Mansiysk on October 30-31.
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The 80th Anniversary of the first President of Sakha Republic (Yakutia) Mikhail Yefimovich Nikolaev was held in November 13, 2017. Period of his Presidency 1991 to 2002 were the hardest times of the Soviet Union’s collapse, democratic reforms, introduction of free trade relations, contrasted with social, economic and political instability and tensions.
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NOVEMBER 1-4, SALEKHARD, the II International Workshop of the Siberian Environmental Change Network (SecNet) "Siberia in a Global Context. Winter Weather and Climate Extremes: Prediction and Adaptation" will bring together leading researchers and indigenous representatives to discuss the outcomes of interdisciplinary research and to exchange information on extreme weather events and their impact on nature and society to develop adaptation strategies.
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Arctic Council’s Senior Arctic Officials meeting held in Oulu, Finland, on 25-26 October 2017, was attended by representatives of the eight Arctic states and six indigenous Permanent Participant organizations, as well as the Arctic Council’s six Working Groups and more than thirty Observers. The Northern Forum was represented by the Governor of Lapland Mika Riipi and NF Executive Director, Mikhail Pogodaev.
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OCTOBER 30 – 31, 2017, Khanty-Mansiysk is hosting the II International Research Conference “Siberian Ugric People in a Necklace of Subarctic Cultures: Common and Unique”. The event will be attended by international researchers from Hungary, Finland, United States, as well as experts in Siberian ethnography, history, museology, and tourism from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Ekaterinburg, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Ugra, and Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
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OCTOBER 27th, Egor Borisov, Head of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), took part in the XXX session of the Foreign Ministry's Council of the Heads of Constituent Entities of the Russian Federation chaired by Sergey Lavrov. The main discussion topic was the regional experience of cooperation with civil society institutions for the promotion of Russian interests on the international agenda.
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Today the Arctic Council will gather for 2-day Senior Arctic Officials' meeting in Oulu, Finland. This will be the first SAO meeting held during the Finnish Chairmanship in the Arctic Council (2017-2019).
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The annual Arctic Circle Assembly concluded yesterday in Reykjavik, Iceland. This year the Assembly was held for the fifth time from October 13th to October 15th.
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The Arctic is the most unusual region on our planet and it is not surprising that it is called enigmatic and mysterious, because this region is hiding many miracles.