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There were some scary moments Tuesday on a Denver-bound Icelandair flight after lightning struck, blasting a hole in the nose of the plane.
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Svalbard, April 5 - RIA news, Alexander Kovalev, National flags of Russia and all 85 territorial entities of the Russian Federation, Norway and Serbia also overall record size of more than 1.5 thousand square meters were deployed at the same time to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War near the North Pole.
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Mikhail Pogodaev is the new Acting Executive Director of Northern Forum
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Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko praised the chances of Khanty-Mansiysk to spend in 2020 Biathlon World Championships.
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Oil production in the American sector of the Arctic is strictly regulated, so the oil companies more profitable to work in other Arctic countries. This was stated by the CEO of ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson in an interview with the Associated Press. His words are quoted by TASS.
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Sakha delegation has met Gangwon Province top officials during a visit that took place on March 15-18, 2015. The Sakha delegation was led by the Federative and External Relations Minister Vladimir Vasiliev. He was accompanied by a “Yakutia” Technopark Director Anatoly Semionov, “Yakutia” airline Deputy Director on Strategic Development Dmitry Timofeye and Deputy Director on Marketing Grigory Reshetnikov.
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Candidates backed by the Democratic Party of Japan, the nation’s largest opposition party, are set to challenge incumbents supported by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in two of the 10 gubernatorial elections to be held during the quadrennial unified local elections.
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The remains were sent to an abroad laboratory to determine the exact age
Scientists have made a unique discovery in Sakha - they found the remains of a baby woolly rhinoceros, who lived at the late Pleistocene era, which began about two million years ago and ended more than 10 thousand. Years ago.
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Iceland is preparing the new attraction for tourists – the longest ice tunnel in Europe.
The 400-meter drive should be finished in several weeks.
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Earlier this year, a group of Chinese officials and scientists visited the Norwegian city of Tromso for the ninth Arctic Frontiers conference, where matters related to the northern region were discussed. The meeting brought together 1,400 government officials, scholars and activists from 30 Arctic and non-Arctic countries from January 18 to 23 to discuss climate change and energy matters related to the Arctic. Chinese officials say that China, now the second-largest economy in the world and a major emitter of greenhouse gasses, is important in the fight against the global warming. It and many other Asian nations like Singapore, are also voicing greater concern about environmental changes in the Arctic region, changes they say are beginning to have big impacts on their countries. Norway's minister of foreign affairs, Borge Brende, said China's growing importance in economic affairs and in the scientific community would get it more involved in issues related to the Arctic.
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The environment minister, Åsa Romson of the Green Party, presented the decision together with the minister for rural affairs, Sven-Erik Bucht of the Social Democrats. They claimed that the scientific basis for how Sweden handles the size of its wolf population is questionable.
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The Moscow Arctic Summit of Development will be devoted to problems of introduction nano and communication mechanics, to technological break of military-industrial development in a section of needs of the Arctic regions, and also consider discussion of Arctic development as national idea.