News & Views on the Russian presence within the Arctic Circle
30 April 2010
According to this report the govenor of the Murmansk region believes that Russia did not make any concessions, though he is contradicted by a former economist and engineer Nikolai Bogdanov who estimates that Russia has had to cede around 9 billion tonnes of oil and who laments the lack of a proper exploration policy and reliance on foreign firms. The Financial Times in the UK uses the metaphor... Read More...
29 April 2010
Whenever Putin does anything related to the Arctic then the internet gets jammed packed with articles and reports. So it is the case with the visit of Putin to Franz-Joseph land where the problems of polar bears and other matters have been discussed under the auspices of the Russian Geographical Society. Videofootage of Putin and the scientists together with a lullaby soundtrack about... Read More...
20 April 2010
In a response to the speech given in the Duma noted here, and which is repeated here, the satirists have hit back. The representative of the United Russia party was keen for all journalists and commentators to fall in behind the government’s plans for the Arctic, instead of defending terrorists who blow people up on trains. In the internet publication MKRU a fair amount of scorn... Read More...
9 April 2010
As Putin addressed the United Russia conference on Socio-Economic Development in Siberia which touched on questions of housing policy, mortgages for young families and professionals in the south and northern areas of that vast region, including the Arctic and the Far North, a problem which has been mentioned before, Chilingarov has addressed the problem of climate change and what it... Read More...
29 March 2010
Further to this post, which included links to articles about the difficulties attracting younger people to work in the north, a Ukrainian agency has posted this account of a demonstration in Arkhagelsk against the Government. Alongside banners which posed questions for the premiership of Putin the specific demands, as reported, seem to have included the lack of heat (ironically oil and... Read More...
23 March 2010
правда севера reports on a meeting of the United Russia party held in St. Petersburg where presentations were given on the northern sea route which specified that the route is uneconomic when compared with the Suez route in winter but that it is more economical than Suez in the summer. References were also made to Chilingarov’s new legal framework for the NSR entitled,«Северный... Read More...
18 March 2010
вести.ru were the first to broadcast, there is video, Medvedev’s remarks to the Security Council of the Russian Federation. There is a need to obtain the correct balance between the competitiveness of Russia’s economy and measures to combat environmental change, according to Medvedev. This is fair enough but Medvedev also commented on the, ‘ недопустимости... Read More...
16 March 2010
Most national agencies are keen to report Putin’s lastest contribution to Arctic international diplomacy – he is ready for dialogue, with the countries of the region reports приам-тасс. риа-новости describes these littoral countries as: Russia, the United States, Canada, Denmark and Norway, though in another article announcing a forthcoming conference the... Read More...
20 December 2009
Поиск, which is a kind of scientific non-technical journal, contains an interesting interview with the chief researcher at the Institute of Geological Sciences, Academician Yuri Leonov, in which there is discussion and analysis of the future of oil and gas exploration in the Arctic. The Academician states that the traditional sources for Russia in the Caspian and Western Siberian... Read More...
18 December 2009
Prime Minister Putin today visits St. Petersburg and engages with three elements of Russia’s Arctic policy: military, economic and scientific. приайм-тасс report that Prime Minister will be in St. Petersburg at the Admiralty shipyards, founded by Peter the Great in 1704, for meetings to discuss modern naval armaments. Presumably, this follows on from recent failures... Read More...
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