News & Views on the Russian presence within the Arctic Circle
7 May 2010
Taimyr local government officials report that there will be a meeting between interested parties taking place in Dudinka in the Taimyr region in order to discuss, ‘information on the construction of a new icebreaker, which will go into Dudinskiy port, the practical results of hydrometeorological support of navigation of ships along the Murmansk Norilsk Nickel-Murmansk-Dudinka, as well... Read More...
19 April 2010
RIA Novocti has a good deal of multimedia material on the Arctic in advance of upcoming meetings, such as the Arctic Council meeting at the end of the month. There is a press conference here with Special Envoy of the Russian Foreign Ministry Anton Vasiliev which will take me some time to digest and understand. In the meantime, again in line with a number of reports from recent days,... 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...
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...
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...
23 March 2010
From these reports we learn that the ship Akademic Federov is being ‘patched’ at a cost of 190 million roubles. Then from this report, from the official website of the United Russia party about the research station Borneo, which is very close to the North Pole, we learn that the research ship is actually being used to determine the boundaries of the Russian continental shelf... 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...
22 March 2010
вести.ru has excellent first hand and detailed video footage of the establishment of the Russian polar station base Borneo, which I think took place over the weekend. The interviews with the scientists and pilots on board plus the commentary in вести emphasize the work that the station will do in understanding processes of climate change, which as we all know is of some interest... Read More...
11 February 2010
It has been a long time coming but радио голос росии carried an interview with Artur Chilingarov, all round Russian Arctic hero, the kind of Arctic veteran that makes Pen Haddow look like BenFogle. His comments touch on a number of significant areas including: the claim at the UN where ‘cоблюсти свои национальные интересы России... 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...
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