News & Views on the Russian presence within the Arctic Circle
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 February 2010
Recent days have seen a number of contradictory arguments about what might happen to Russia under conditions of global warming. rbc.ru reports on an American study by the Pew Group which claims that melting Arctic ice will damage permafrost and create further unspecified problems, followed by a number of rather bland comments from one Alexander Bedritsky, Russian President of the WMO... Read More...
14 January 2010
As delegates prepare for the conference Arctic Frontiers, to be held in Tromso Norway later this month, which will focus on the ’sustainable’ development of the northern regions (all development now has to be of this kind), the environmental group Bellona writes of Gazprom’s gasification plans for the Murmansk region and the environmental risks that it may produce, including:... Read More...
21 November 2009
Under the heading ‘melting permafrost is fraught with catastrophe’ Комплюента reports on the press conference following a conference in St. Petersburg on the melting permafrost in the Russian north. The list of participants included Kirpotkin from Siberia. The dangers are to infrastructure and, as Kirpotkin has argued for some years, to the dangers of methane in... Read More...
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