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...
29 April 2010
Whenever Putin does anything related to the Arctic then the internet gets jammed packed with articles and reports. So it is the case with the visit of Putin to Franz-Joseph land where the problems of polar bears and other matters have been discussed under the auspices of the Russian Geographical Society. Videofootage of Putin and the scientists together with a lullaby soundtrack about... 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...
29 March 2010
Further to this post, which included links to articles about the difficulties attracting younger people to work in the north, a Ukrainian agency has posted this account of a demonstration in Arkhagelsk against the Government. Alongside banners which posed questions for the premiership of Putin the specific demands, as reported, seem to have included the lack of heat (ironically oil and... Read More...
16 March 2010
Most national agencies are keen to report Putin’s lastest contribution to Arctic international diplomacy – he is ready for dialogue, with the countries of the region reports приам-тасс. риа-новости describes these littoral countries as: Russia, the United States, Canada, Denmark and Norway, though in another article announcing a forthcoming conference the... 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...
19 November 2009
To demonstrate the connection between geographical sciences in Russia and state economic and development policies you need go no further than follow the extensive coverage given yesterday to the remarks made by Prime Minister Putin before the Russian Geographical Society. Время-новости lauds Putin’s qualifications to act as the new Chairman of the Board of Trustees... 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...
24 October 2009
Environmental politics has intersected with energy politics in the past, such as when Putin, Russian environment agencies and even the WWF evoked breaches of environmental regulations on the part of Shell in a dispute about the Sakhalin project. The WWF ahead of Copenhagen is lobbying in Russia, along with google and youtube, GreenpeaceRussia and the Department of Energy, about the issue... Read More...
8 October 2009
The article from санкт-петербург ведмости that I referenced re: gazprom makes reference to the fact that Russia’s domestic gas market is in decline, there is not enough demand, and that access to foreign markets is needed to make investment in the Arctic programmes worthwhile. Единая-россия (which is always translated as United Russia but the adjective... Read More...
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