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Visits to the Franz Josef Land must be made more attractive, leader of the local national park says.

Roman Trotsenko is ready to invest large sums in the opening of a far northern coal mine and the building of a new major seaport on the Barents Sea coast.

New systems for radio-electronic warfare installed along the country’s Arctic coast are able to jam foreign ships and aircrafts several thousand kilometers away.

China defines itself as a near-Arctic state and says it will actively participate with wisdom and strength to future protection and development.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stunned onlookers Monday by tongue-lashing China and Russia during an Arctic policy speech on the eve of the Arctic Council ministerial.

Thousands died of hunger and cold as they laid rails across the desolate areas of North Siberia. Now Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu hints he is ready to give the Transpolar Mainline project a new shot.

Senior diplomats from the eight Arctic Council countries meeting in Finland late last week struggled to come up with language on climate change that the Trump administration would support at the upcoming ministerial meeting in May, according to people familiar with these discussions.

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.

Russia has scored an important scientific point in its quest to declare vast swaths of the Arctic as part of its extended continental shelf in the rapidly melting northern ocean, according to Russian officials.

An ice floe has been found for the drifting ice camp Barneo-2019

Sustainable development is on the agenda when Prime Minister Stefan Löfven travels to Russia’s Arctic Forum in St. Petersburg in April.