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The Board meeting of the University of the Arctic (UArctic), international cooperative network of Circumpolar Arctic region’s universities and colleges, will be held in Yakutsk on April 6-7, 2018. According to Lars Kullerud, UArctic President, the meeting’s main agenda will be improvements in academic mobility and professional education.
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February 15, 2018 the fourth scientific and practical conference "School of Life in the North" was held in English within the framework of the "Partnership of Schools" project.
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Quebec, Canada is hosting the Arctic
Council’s PAME Working Group meeting on February 12-14, 2018.
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The Norwegian Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide, speaking at the Arctic Frontiers international conference in Tromsø, says that the Arctic, in spite of the increasing unpredictability and security issues around the world, the Arctic continues to be a region of stability and cooperation.
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US Consul General Michael Keays has expressed Alaska’s readiness to develop cooperation with Russian Far Eastern regions in his letter to Governor of Chukotka Roman Kopin, the press service of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug administration reports.
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China’s Arctic Policy
The State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China
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TROMSØ (Norway), Jan 22 “The Arctic is a region of stability and international cooperation, and it is necessary to make every possible efforts to keep this state, to solve climate change issues by joint efforts, to seek a balance between industrial interests and environmental protection”, said Ine Eriksen Seøreide, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway on the opening of Arctic Frontiers 2018 conference, held in Tromsø, Norway.
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International Online Olympiad “School of Living in the North” is being held with support of Ministry of Education of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Institute of Education Development and Qualification Improvement of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) as a part of Northern Forum’s events.
AIMS: to develop interactive methods and information technologies in studying languages, to raise students’ interest to creative and researchable activities, focused on northern life values, international cooperation and successful socialization in the modern world.
OBJECTS:
- Encouraging the study and development of the culture, formed through life under harsh Arctic conditions.
- Promoting research activities among students.
- Develop students’ foreign communicative competence.
- Find and support talented, creative children and youth.
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During his annual end-of-the-year press-conference, held in Moscow yesterday, December 14, President Vladimir Putin have answered a question about the Arctic. Here is the extract:
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Implementation of Arctic projects is impossible without concerns of indigenous interests, said Mikhail Pogodaev during the VII International Forum "Arctic: Today and the Future" held in Saint Petersburg.
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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.