An own coast guard for Greenland?
Greenland’s foreign minister dreams of Greenland having its own coast guard, causing confusion in Denmark and Russia.
Greenland’s foreign minister dreams of Greenland having its own coast guard, causing confusion in Denmark and Russia.
Today’s Arctic Council ministerial meeting discussed some important issues on security, climate, development and the new chairmanship of Russia.
The distribution of aid funds planned by the Longyearbyen Local Council is considered unfair and discriminatory by some representatives of the tourism industry
Japan’s Marine Science and Technology Agency will begin building a new icebreaker in 2021 to conduct research in the North Pole region.
The construction of the fiber-optic communication line from Murmansk to Vladivostok is scheduled to start in late May – early June.
In the future, nuclear submarines of NATO partners will be able to dock near the Norwegian city of Tromsø.
The governor of Russia’s Krasnoyarsk region believes that flights from Khatanga to the North Pole is a great opportunity for the region to promote tourism.
The US is trying to counter Russian actions in the Arctic. The Defense Department is concerned about Russia’s expansion in the region.
This year’s Arctic Council meeting could also be a simultaneous US-Russian summit, as both foreign ministers will be attending.
The Canadian government assesses, in addition to climate change, China’s expansion into the Arctic as problems that will have to be dealt with in the future.
Indigenous peoples on the Taimyr Peninsula will receive new funding to preserve their culture. 28 different projects in the Russian Arctic benefit from the grants.
For the first time in history, Russia is supplying LNG to Norway at the Hammerfest LNG plant in Melkøya, which opened in 2007 and is operated by Equinor.
Novatek plans to raise $11 billion for Arctic operations, intending to accelerate the start-up of Arctic LNG2.
Greenland has voted and put a damper on the previously ruling Siumut party by electing the opposition party as the strongest force.
As soon as the traffic jam at the Suez Canal was over and the last ships could pass through the canal, the discussion about alternatives really started.
The Clean Arctic Alliance called on the ‘International Maritime Organization’ to take the step of immediately banning ships from using heavy fuel oil in the Arctic.
For the first time in Russia’s history, three Russian Navy nuclear submarines surfaced together in the ice within a 300-meter radius.
The Czech Republic would like to join the circle of observer states in the Arctic Council this year and wants to convince with its scientific interests.
Currently, the question of the placement of the special submarine “Khabarovsk” is under consideration. One of the possible options for deployment is Kamchatka.
In the midst of the dispute between the U.S. and Russia, the U.S. Army releases its own Arctic strategy, titled “Regaining Arctic Dominance”
Russia is considering using prisoners to help clean up the Arctic after a massive diesel spill hit the area around the city of Norilsk last year.
According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the fine of 1.62 billion euros will be used to improve the ecology of the region.
The passage of the Northeast Passage in winter does not yet seem to be without problems. The “Nikolay Yevgenov” has suffered damage at the Azipod.
The Chinese People’s Congress in Beijing decided on March 5, 2021 to participate in the construction of a “Polar Silk Road”.