... table discussion “Navigation in the Arctic: Promoting Cooperation and Addressing Challenges.” The event was attended by diplomats, representatives of government agencies, expert community and academic circles of Russia, the United States and Canada.
The discussion was opened by RIAC President Igor Ivanov. Welcoming remarks were delivered by Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council Vladimir Nazarov, Russian Foreign Ministry’s Ambassador at Large and Russia’s Senior Delegate ...
p>On October 19, Canada held its 42nd general election to the House of Commons which brought a stunning victory to the Liberal Party, a party whose leaders and new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have already formed the Cabinet and are now are busy establishing their national ...
... increase in traffic and development, it is essential that investments in vessels, marine navigation and inland infrastructure are made.
Corporate Parity aims to present the platform to discuss the updates in various sectors within the Arctic between Canada and Russia. These are matters of great worldwide importance from both private and overseas community.
The updated perspective:
Consists of a combination of case study from large multinational enterprises and governments – in order to maximize ...
The US space agency has forked out $490m for six seats for its astronauts to get to the ISS on board one of the Russian Federal Space Agency's (Roscosmos) Soyuz spacecraft. Nasa's space shuttles were stopped in 2011 as the organisation set about sending its astronauts to the ISS on board privately developed spacecrafts like SpaceX. However, a shortfall in funding from the US Congress has meant the space agency is down about a billion dollars on what it requested since 2011. As a result, the first...
III. Canada
Stephen Harper: the rise and fall of Canada's defence budget
Since coming to power in 2006, Canada’s Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper has made support for the military the centrepiece of his campaign to garner support ...
... remain quite reserved and even positive. In an interview with the
Politiken
newspaper, Danish Foreign Minister Martin Lidergaard underlined he saw nothing provocative in Denmark's CLCS submission and was eager to see the counterclaims of Russia and Canada that should become the basis for future negotiations
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. What seems important is that Mr. Lidergaard's commentary clearly points to the Danes' readiness for pragmatic bargaining, which means they may curtail the scope of their initial claims....
Russia and Canada are the two largest Arctic countries. Three-quarters of the Arctic Ocean’s coastlines belong to Russia and Canada. Russia, with an Arctic coastline stretching over 20,000 km2, is the biggest Arctic state. The population of the Russian Arctic ...
Canada’s next federal election is this year. It will most likely be held in October 2015. The current Conservative government is hoping to retain its majority through the manipulation of the Ukrainian/Canadian voting base in western Canada by support ...
... Resolve, until
October 15
. This is a totally unique case, especially considering the fact that America’s Western allies have always promptly named their own contributions to the intervention (Shader in Great Britain, Chammal in France, Impact in Canada, and Okra in Australia). In the overall context, the name “Inherent Resolve” smacks of the defence department taking a swipe at the political leadership.
On the whole, for the U.S. global war machine this is a regional war in the full ...
... avenues for cooperation that still contains a tangible constructiveness and willingness for cooperation among the member countries.
Also of great importance is the fact that the United States, which will to take up the Arctic Council presidency from Canada this year, appears eager to isolate its function from international turbulence for the sake of closer cooperation.
I believe the next two years will be immensely significant in view of mutual socialization for the Arctic Council members, especially ...
