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Shipping on the Russian Arctic route could amount to 77 million tons by year 2024 if the right projects are implemented, a new government report says.

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 is allocated from the government’s reserve fund and is to strengthen Arctic weather forecasting.

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.

Here it is: A vessel that can both crush through the ice and dive beneath it when working on extraction of mineral resources from the Arctic seabed.