Duma speaker instructs Foreign Affairs Committee to review Barents Sea treaty
Speaker of Russia’s Parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, wants a study on possible options of denouncing the 2010 Treaty with Norway concerning
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Putin reshuffles top team on environment and Arctic
The Russian Minister of Natural Resources is fired and replaced by the Minister of the Far East and Arctic. Speculations
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Bill would allow Russia to tag journalists as “foreign agents”
It is another crackdown on the Russian media, and it will make it even harder for Russian journalists to engage
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Russian government to raise retirement age by several years
We live longer, are active longer, and therefore we need to work longer, Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev argues as
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Murmansk Governor Marina Kovtun loses ground in international affairs
The Murmansk legislative assembly, the regional Duma, on March 12th, adopted a revision of the regional Charter, which ultimately might
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United Russia wins elections in Russia’s western Arctic
The United Russia wins 39,3 percent of the votes in regional parliament elections in Murmansk, a significant increase compared with
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