News & Views on the Russian presence within the Arctic Circle
8 May 2010
Coming after the agreement over the Barents Sea and this week’s announcment of naval joint-exercises between Russia and Norway, which will test inter-operability in various scenarios such as emergency and rescue, armed attack on instillations, Norway is now focussing its Arctic diplomacy on the Arctic Council. The report in иносми is actually a translation of a Canadian article... Read More...
15 April 2010
радио-голос, which consistently takes a tough line in these matters, reports that the USA is going to use an air-transit route over the North Pole to Afghanistan. This plan does not take into account the interests of Russia, could potentially use Russian air-space and ‘американские транзитные планы идут в разрез с курсом на... Read More...
8 April 2010
It was announced as far back as last July and it now appears as though the paratroopers descent to the North Pole is impending – though the odd thing is that there is no Russian media news about it, apart from this Russian translation of a Canadian article in inoсми.ru. I suspect that they are keeping their power dry in order to maximise the domestic impact of the story. In... Read More...
30 March 2010
Many agencies have, of course, reported on the visit of Foreign Minister Lavrov to Canada. For the most part, there were few hints of any disagreement or any clue as to what might have been discussed behind closed doors. There was one issue, however, which did seem to emerge: what is the appropriate forum for discussing Arctic issues? риа-новости contextualised the issues... Read More...
26 March 2010
While TACC reports opinion from within the USA ’s intelligence community that the Arctic will not become another zone of conflict независимое has sought out opinions from Russian politicians about this very issue. Foreign Minister Lavrov, for example, states that attempts to whip up rumours of conflict are unnecessary and counter-productive. Chilingarov argues that... Read More...
19 March 2010
Medvedev’s comments that Russia is being prevented from exercising its legitimate rights in the Arctic have been rejected and criticized by Canada and Norway. Norway argues that Medvedev was using rhetorical strategies, while Canada, according to иифох, has stated that Russia is ‘playing games’. There is to be a meeting of the five Arctic states – Norway,... 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...
27 February 2010
According to portnews the Arctic Council will institute a common framework for search and rescue operations, so claims State Secretary, Deputy Transport Minister Sergei Aristov in the opening speech of the first meeting of the Task Force of the Arctic Council. According to the report, it is the view of the Minister that ’ the creation of a unified regional Arctic search and... Read More...
23 February 2010
To celebrate the olympics Chilingarov has suggested to RIA Novosti that Russia would be happy to see Canada’s flag flying at the North Pole, alongside Russia’s tricolour. A brilliant move. We are we all fighting about this pole? Chilingarov is an excellent ambassador for Russia on this issue. Read More →
14 February 2010
As the Vancouver Olympics began правда used the occasion to reflect on Canada’s Arctic ambitions and its relationships with Russia. The article makes the claim that, ‘Канады использовали Олимпиаду для укрепления своих позиций в мире’ – i.e., that Canada has used the Olympics to strengthen its position... Read More...
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