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...
28 April 2010
This report in прийм-тасс emphasizes that historic handshakes (vecti has videofootage of the press conference) are not quite the same thing as detailed agreement. The report states that, ‘Москва рассчитывает на диалог по этому вопросу’, which roughly means that Moscow is considering the dialogue on this issue, which is the precise... Read More...
27 April 2010
The importance of this doesn’t need to be emphasized but utro.ru have reported that Norway and Russia have concluded an agreement about the delineation of maritime boundaries in the Barents Sea which will be called, ‘Agreement on maritime delimitation and cooperation in the Barents Sea and Arctic Ocean.” The report stresses that the precise legal details still need... 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...
17 February 2010
Despite some recent doubts about the immediate future of the field, the latest on the Shtokman project is that Russian companies are now bidding to build the platforms and rigs, and the various ships, barges and pontoons needed for the project. прийm-тасс carried an article by one Dmitry Lyutyagin from Veles Capital who is optimistic about the long-term prospects for Gazprom. It... Read More...
18 November 2009
Риа-новости continues the scientific arguments about ice-cover in the Arctic by reporting on research done by Russian scientists using satellite remote sensing. The scientists give 2050 as a date when the Arctic coastal areas could be ice-free during the summer for the first time. The research was completed under the auspices of the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Institute... Read More...
6 November 2009
Following on from yesterday’s post орлеанда-новости also triangulates, in an article from yesterday, between three points – точки – in the analysis of the ‘new cold war’. There are, it is argued, three forces that combine to create a heightened risk of international conflict in the future between Russia and NATO of some still not quite... Read More...
30 September 2009
K2 capital reported that a Norwegian oil and gas company are going to be key players in the development of new Russian fields in the Arctic. Is it the case, therefore, that Norway are supporting what Medvedev called ‘the new energy order’. This Russian commentator certainly thought so – ‘На нашей стороне может выступить Норвегия,... Read More...
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