All key government structures of the Union must assign a far higher level of attention to Arctic affairs, says Urmas Paet.

Shipping on the Northern Sea Route will amount to 92,6 million tons in year 2024, leader of nuclear power company Rosatom says. That is an increase of more than 450 percent in six years.

The world’s only ship of its kind will deliver thousands of tons of construction materials to the Arctic LNG 2 project in peninsula Gydan.

Russia’s need for year-round petroleum export along the Northern Sea Route is the main driver behind the futuristic icebreaker.

Rosneft mulls building of a 600 km long pipeline from its Vankor oil fields to the Kara Sea.

It will monitor and regulate ship traffic on the Northern Sea Route.

52 polar bears are walking around the corners in the town of Belushya Guba on Novaya Zemlya scaring people from leaving their houses.

There is dramatic urgency in this matter, says Peter Winsor, Arctic program director at the WWF.

We Sámi people manage the life cycles of natural resources and produce little or no wastes. That is what I call a Smart Arctic, President of Norway’s Sámi Parliament Aili Keskitalo underlined as she today opened the Arctic Frontiers.

Not enough hotels in Arkhangelsk to host the 4,000 participants, the organizers argue.

There is unease in several Russian government ministries as officials start to understand that the President’s objectives for the Northern Sea Route can not be reached. The only way to please the president might be to expand the sea route itself.