Potanin: ‘This is a historic event for Nornickel’
The polluting smeler in Nikel was shut down forever on Dec. 23. “Today will be a symbolic event — the
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Business (Russia)
Shipping on Northern Sea Route breaks record
More than 32 million tons of goods has been shipped on the Russian Arctic shipping route in 2020. As Russia’s
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Shell teams up with Gazprom Neft in Arctic
The two companies are jointly to develop license areas in Russia’s far northern Gydan Peninsula. A joint venture established on
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Rosneft tells Putin new Arctic project will produce 30 million tons of oil by 2024
About 100 drilling rigs will be erected on the Taymyr tundra and a 770 km long oil pipeline will bring
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Growth continues on Northern Sea Route despite year of crisis
Figures for the first 10 months of 2020 show that Arctic shipping continues to increase despite the coronavirus and world
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Nornickel is “cynical, corrupt and socially irresponsible”, says Russia’s top legislator
Following a parliament visit to the far northern company town of Norilsk, the Federation Council and its Speaker Valentina Matvienko
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Russia’s Arctic NAO region struggles to pay bills as oil revenues plummet
A major drop in oil revenues has made the Nenets Autonomous Okrug address Moscow for help. Local authorities in Naryan-Mar,
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Murmansk, Russia sees growth in domestic tourists amid crisis for international travel
The Russian north sees more domestic tourists, but tour operator Sergey Arzumanov in Murmansk says closed borders, quarantine measures and
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Murmansk Shipping Company in Russia goes bankrupt
Its ships were crisscrossing the icy and remote waters of the Soviet North, bringing goods and manpower to bases and
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As sea-ice reaches record low, Arctic shipping reaches new high
Never before have this big volumes been transported along the Russian Arctic shipping route. According to the Russian Federal Agency
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Despite major technical troubles, new Russian icebreaker sets course for Barents Sea
With only two of its three engines in operation, Russia’s new nuclear-powered icebreaker is on its maiden voyage to icy
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Construction of new icebreaking tanker fleet underway amid looming crisis in Arctic LNG project
The Zvezda yard in Vladivostok will have plenty of complex Arctic shipbuilding to do over the next years. Not only
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Russian military land could become site for new Arctic container port
Land and property issues were high on the agenda when Murmansk Governor Andrey Chibis on Monday met with Russian Deputy
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Russia’s Rosatomflot files lawsuits against shipyard as world’s most powerful icebreakers are notoriously delayed
Few details on the content of the lawsuits are made public, but Rosatomflot, the federal enterprise operating and maintaining the
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Modernizing Arctic aviation infrastructure among recommendations at Russian meeting
Better aviation infrastructure and improvement of the airfield network in Russia’s Arctic and Far East were among the recommendations discussed
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