Traffic in the Northeast Passage is to be massively increased in the coming years. However, the necessary vessels are still lacking. The head of the Ministry for Far Eastern Development, Aleksey Chekunkov, in an interview with the news portal RBC on the eve of the...
A Swiss tourist group at the Arctic Circle in Chukotka, the easternmost district of Russia. (Image: Heiner Kubny) Far East and Arctic Development Minister Alexei Chekunkov said he wants to increase the annual flow of tourists to the regions to 15 million people by...