News & Views on the Russian presence within the Arctic Circle
22 December 2009
From итар-тасс came comment from the scientists on board polar drift station 37: they have passed the winter equinox, though in the darkness of the polar night they did not notice. It is reported that they are now looking foward to the onset of spring - ’ Однако придает оптимизма участникам дрейфа то, что не за горами... Read More...
21 December 2009
In the light of the previous post and the statements made about the real difficulties in Arctic development these comments from the governor of the Arkhangelsk region are significant, especially given the conclusion to them in the article which hints at a fusion between state policy and the policy of United Russia, headed by Putin. The article on the necessity of developing Arctic resources... 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...
18 December 2009
gzt.ru publishes an analysis of a report by the Russian Institute of Economic Analysis which claims that British climate scientists have been systematically falsifying climate data by ignoring/selecting/filtering data from Russian weather stations that would otherwise contradict their claims about an overall 2 degree warming in Russia. The Gzt.ru piece is balanced, however, in that... Read More...
17 December 2009
In росбалт-петербург, while Greenpeace Russia argues that it is the USA that is blocking a deal at Copenhagen, there is an article that rehearses the familiar Russian scepticism towards the science that underpins the conference. The article discusses the work of the Head of the Laboratory for Space Research of the Main Astronomical (Pulkovo) Observatory of the RAS, Academician Khabibullo... Read More...
16 December 2009
Under the headling ‘the west prepares for struggle in the Arctic’ иноСМИ.ru, a prominent national daily, published a lengthy analysis of the US Navy’s Arctic Road Map (October 2009). The assessment is that the document demonstrates a continuation of George W. Bush’s geostrategic policies – ‘И в самом деле новая американская... Read More...
15 December 2009
A Russian language source from Germany is describing Russian and German scientific opinion concerning the state of the ice on the Laptev Sea. Apparently, the ice is not showing any obvious signs of stress caused by global warming but scientists are puzzled as to why the east-west drift of the Arctic current, first established by Nansen on the Fram in 1894, is showing signs of speeding... Read More...
14 December 2009
Again the question of the rights of passage on the NSR under conditions of global warming appears as the subject of discussion, this time in RUSNORD under the heading ‘Global Warming to ‘Set at odds’ the Countries of the North’ - (admittedly, this is not a very good translation but it captures the literal meaning). According to the author: “Article 234 of... Read More...
12 December 2009
Russian press agencies are reporting today articles that, in and of themselves cast, doubt on Russia’s strategic military capacity in the Arctic. голос-радио republish an article from The Times (UK) on-line that reports the explosion of a ballistic missile in the atmosphere over Norway, after a test-firing from a Russian submarine. ино-пресса report the... Read More...
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