On October 15-16, 2015, Helsinki was the venue for international conference “Deep Freeze? East-West Relations and the Arctic” sponsored by the East Office of Finnish Industries Ltd., Centre for European Reform and American International Group insurers. RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov presented RIAC’s current and future Arctic projects and plans and discussed bilateral cooperation of Russian and Finnish think tanks in drawing up the agenda for the approaching Finland’s presidency in the Arctic Council.
On October 15-16, 2015, Helsinki was the venue for international conference “Deep Freeze? East-West Relations and the Arctic” sponsored by the East Office of Finnish Industries Ltd., Centre for European Reform and American International Group insurers.
The event gathered about one hundred Finnish officials, as well as diplomats, experts, journalists and civil society leaders, who discussed the current status and prospects for multilateral cooperation in the Arctic in the worsened Russia-West environment, opportunities for strengthening the Arctic Council and other institutions engaged in international Arctic cooperation, the future of territorial disputes, implementation of major energy projects under Western sanctions against Russia, and dropping energy prices.
RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov presented RIAC’s current and future Arctic projects and plans and discussed bilateral cooperation of Russian and Finnish think tanks in drawing up the agenda for the approaching Finland’s presidency in the Arctic Council.
