On December 1-4, 2014 RIAC Program Manager Lyudmila Fililppova went to Finland as a member of press tour "Arctic Issues and Arctic Policy" sponsored by the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Finnfacts Agency. Among participants were media people and representatives of Karelia Republic, Murmansk Region, Pskov Region, Moscow and St. Petersburg.
On December 1-4, 2014 RIAC Program Manager Lyudmila Fililppova went to Finland as a member of press tour "Arctic Issues and Arctic Policy" sponsored by the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Finnfacts Agency. Among participants were media people and representatives of Karelia Republic, Murmansk Region, Pskov Region, Moscow and St. Petersburg.
In Rovaniemi, the tour members visited the Arctic Center of the University of Lapland and the Arktikum Museum, Chamber of Commerce and the Regional Council of Lapland as well as familiarized themselves with the Sami traditional reindeer breeding practice and export success stories on the example of the Lappset Group.
In Helsinki, the team was presented the research carried out by the Finnish Institute of Metrology, learned about the weather forecasting specifics in the Arctic and had a tour of Aker Arctic, the company involved in designing and construction of icebreakers and other vessels for the Arctic and the Antarctic, as well as in testing using the ice modeling technologies.
The program also included a visit to the Arctia Company and the Finnish flagship icebreaker URHO. The firm is charged with security of year-round Arctic shipping and icebreaker escorting and towing of merchant ships. The icebreaking operations vary with the ice condition and may last from 500 to 1,100 working days a year.
The guests met Finnish Ambassador for Arctic Affairs Aleksi Härkönen to discuss key issues of Finland's Arctic policy, as well as priorities of Helsinki's current presidency in the Barents Euro-Arctic Council and in the Arctic Council in 2017-2018.
Press tour "Arctic Issues and Arctic Policy"
