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Interview with Rabia Kalfaoglu, Assistant Professor of IR at Recep Tayyip Erdogan University in Rize Turkey is among non-regional actors in the Arctic. Though the country hasn’t published an Arctic strategy as a separate official document, it still has the vision, interests and goals in the region, as well as a well-established Polar science and research program. Rabia Kalfaoglu, Assistant ...
Interview with Dr Jawahar Vishnu Bhagwat The development of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) is currently one of Russia’s key strategic projects for the Arctic region. Given its scale and significance, developing the NSR also requires expanding international cooperation and participation in the project. Russia has been actively attracting Indian partners to find areas where the two can work together to ...
Interview with professor D Suba Chandran India has a well-developed Antarctic program, and the country is a relatively new actor in the Arctic. It received an Observer status in the Arctic Council in 2013, published its official Arctic Policy in 2022. India’s interest to the Polar region is growing. Does India have enough ...
India recognises the value of having different forums to advocate its Arctic issues It is hard not to notice the growing activity of non-Arctic states in the Arctic region. Over the past 10 years, since China, Japan, India, Singapore and South Korea were granted observer status in the Arctic Council in 2013, the discourse ...
As Arctic permafrost rapidly is responding to climate change, Arctic states should do the same “Human civilisation has never known a time when there has not been sea ice in the Arctic in the summer. We appear to be approaching that time.” Waleed Abdalati,...
... remain extremely vigilant despite the current unstable socio-economic situation. As it has been largely covered by the media around the world, on May 29, 2020, an oil storage tank from Norilsk-Taimyr Energy's Thermal Power Plant, located in a remote Arctic region of Russia, started leaking. The industrial disaster has polluted the Ambarnaya river and possibly surrounding bodies of water, including Lake Pyasino and the Arctic Ocean. The latest update estimates that about 21.000 tons of oil have leaked ...
Why does climate change in the Arctic matter? The outbreak of COVID-19, despite its horrific consequences on humanity, resulted in an unexpectedly positive effect on the global environment. Due to China’s factories shut down, port restrictions , international air traffic put ...
On October 14, 2019, in Arkhangelsk, Northern (Arctic) Federal University (NArFU) hosted a seminar on “Maritime Security in the Arctic: A View from Russia and Britain” as part of a joint project of Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Royal United Services Institute, RUSI “Russian-British ...
On June 18, 2019, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF Russia) held a round table on the development of international cooperation in Arctic marine space management On June 18, 2019, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF Russia) held a round table on the development of international cooperation in Arctic marine space management. The ...
Report No. 42/2018 The report reviews approaches and mechanisms of marine management in the Arctic Ocean in areas beyond national jurisdiction of the coastal states. Given the growing interest to economic development in the Arctic, this issue is of increasing significance and implies the development of ecosystem-based management in the region....
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