The MIKON flagship program in the Fram Centre is using both social and environmental sciences to examine how High North industrial development will affect the natural world, regional societies like the Sami and economic activity.
Russia’s Vneshekonombank confirms that it is ready to grant up to 28 billion RUB on the construction of a new shipyard in Primorsk on the Baltic Sea coast.
The Norwegian bank Sparebank 1 Nord-Norge has got license to acquire 75 percent of the shares in the Russian ZAO Agrokredbank, according to an information release posted at the Oslo Stock Exchange’s NewsWeb.
The Oktyabrskaya railway stretch, linking Murmansk with Moscow and St. Petersburg, will in the future allow private passenger railway services to operate.
A high-level conference with the aim to link industrial value creation from ore and mineral deposits with natural gas in the Barents Region starts in the Norwegian border town of Kirkenes on Tuesday.
Regional authorities in Murmansk are to invest 58 million RUB in the upgrade of the road leading to the Finnish border. Federal authorities will add another 112 million RUB to the project.
Both Murmansk and Arkhangelsk Oblast are ranked among the worst regions in Russia in a new regional management rating from the federal Ministry of Regional Development.
The Russian fleet of nuclear-powered icebreakers makes more money than expected and prepares for new upcoming challenges in the Arctic, leader of Atomflot Vyacheslav Ruksha says in an interview.
