Alexander Stubb, famous in the Barents Region for branding the north as the world´s most sexy region, is put on track to take over after Jyrki Katainen.
The Russian federal budget deficit in 2009 was 6,4 percent, which is considerably less than the previously estimated 8,3 percent. In 2010, the budget deficit will be between 3-4 percent, Finance Minister Aleksey Kudrin believes.
Murmansk Oblast Governor Dmitry Dmitriyenko will not be coming to Kirkenes today for his planned meeting to discuss joint nuclear safety projects. The reason for this for this is a snowstorm that has forced the airport and most roads to close.
The Russian shelf should be opened for private oil companies, believes Minister of Energy Sergey Shmatko. Today only the state owned companies Gazprom and Rosneft are allowed to develop the resources rich fields on the Russian Continental Shelf.
Visa facilitation and the Partnership for Modernization will be the top issues in the EU-Russia Summit in Rostov-On-Don, however no breakthrough deals are likely to be signed, Head of the EU’s Delegation to Russia says.
A new agreement signed by the leaders of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug and Arkhangelsk Oblast returns several formerly deprived powers to the small oil-rich region.
Foreign Minister of Finland in a speech this week said that visa-free travel and free trade are the two top bilateral issues in Finnish-Russian relations.
The price of the Arctic question is much higher than the billions of barrels of oil or gas which we can produce in the area, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said in a conference speech in Moscow today. All questions about the Arctic can be solved in the spirit of partnership, he stressed.
Stepan Tananykin today resigned after only four months as Mayor of Murmansk. The new mayor of the world’s largest town above the Arctic Circle is now Aleksey Veller.
Cooperation within the Barents Euro-Arctic Region is our priority when it comes to cooperation on international level, says Komi Governor Vyacheslav Gayzer.
Populist leader of Russia’s Liberal Democratic Party and vice-chairman of the State Duma says Russia should take the most hard line against Norway to stop openly pirate attack on Russian sailors in Arctic waters.
