The Northwest Russian federal subjects in 2009 saw their budget revenues plummet with up to 40 percent.

69 persons in Arkhangelsk Oblast and Nenets Autonomous Okrug have incomes of more than 100 million rubles, according to numbers from the tax administration.

Sovcomflot intends to carry out a trail shipment of oil from the Varandey terminal in Nenets through the north coast of Siberia to Japan this summer.

Production of oil and gas in the extremely resources wealthy region increased nearly ten percent in January 2010 compared to January 2009.

The Naryanmarneftegaz company last year produced more than 7,5 million tons, making it the fourth most-producing subsidiary in the Lukoil group.

The North of Russia under the threat of depopulation. Since the year 2000 the population in the Russian part of the Barents region decreased by 462.000, or by almost 11 percent.

Tundra areas of the north may seem like endless wilderness with a huge potential for industrial activity. However, the activities of the industrial companies pose a challenge to the indigenous peoples' traditional use of the pasture lands and the reindeers migrating routes.

10 million tons of crude oil has been shipped through Lukoil’s ice resistant oil terminal Varandey in the eastern part of the Barents Sea since the start-up in 2008.

Gazprom has opened the Ob-Bovanenkovo railroad for working traffic. The 525 kilometer long railroad will make it possible to transport 3 million tons of goods per year between the Ob railroad station and the giant gas field Bovanenkovo

The idea to return to direct elections of Russian regional governors is not supported by President Dmitri Medvedev.