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Bellona Murmansk dissolved as Russian NGO

Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 15:11 — Last Updated: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at 13:48
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The environmental organization Bellona Murmansk was on Monday dissolved as a NGO after it was declared a «foreign agent» by

Greenpeace's ice breaker 'Arctic Sunrise' enters its homeport in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on August 9, 2014, after returning from Murmansk, almost a year after it was seized by Russia during a protest against Arctic oil drilling. (Remko de Waal/AFP/Getty Images)

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Russia has to pay for Greenpeace arrest

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at 13:05 — Last Updated: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at 18:51
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The detention of the “Arctic Sunrise” and the arrest of 30 eco-activists following the Greenpeace campaign in the Pechora Sea was illegal

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Peel Watershed case returns to Yukon court

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, August 21, 2015 at 16:05 — Last Updated: Monday, March 19, 2018 at 12:21
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The Peel Watershed controversy is arguably one of the most watched, ongoing environmental stories in Canada. The Yukon Government wants

Pentti Pieski, chair of City-Sámit ry, who says repsonses to his organisation's petition have been positive. (Jouni Aikio / Yle Sápmi)

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Sámi petition gains ground in Finland

Yle News
Posted: Friday, July 17, 2015 at 15:22 — Last Updated: Monday, July 20, 2015 at 18:16
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Sámi associations sent a petition to Finnish MPs and ministers where they asked Finland’s politicians and officials to take the

The Donut Hole (and two other small ones to the south) at the center of the Arctic Ocean. (Cryopolitics)

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Blog: The donut hole at the centre of the Arctic Ocean

Mia Bennett
Posted: Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 13:45 — Last Updated: Friday, June 26, 2015 at 19:55
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On June 4, I wrote about issues surrounding the continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean. June 5 was National Donut

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Village crime victims in Alaska need intervention, senators told

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 15:19 — Last Updated: Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 20:06
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The U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee today heard pleas for better treatment of crime victims in Native communities. Gerad Godfrey, chairman

The Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent in the Arctic in 2008. (Jonathan Hayward / The Canadian Press)

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Blog: The Continental Shelf – Geological, legal or geopolitical?

Mia Bennett
Posted: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 at 20:30 — Last Updated: Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 20:06
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With Shell receiving conditional approval to drill in the Chukchi Sea in offshore Alaska, the phrase “continental shelf” has come up

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Alaska councilman gets death threat for campaigning against heroin use

Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, April 30, 2015 at 14:37 — Last Updated: Friday, May 1, 2015 at 21:09
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BETHEL — A Bethel City Council member trying to put attention on the destructiveness of heroin in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta

The Sami flag. (Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP)

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Finland’s Sámi request UN help in securing their rights

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 15:34 — Last Updated: Friday, May 1, 2015 at 21:09
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The head of Finland’s Sámi Parliament told a United Nations gathering in New York that the Finnish government has robbed

Dozens of Bethel residents and people from nearby villages packed the Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center on Monday evening for a town hall meeting on the prospect of a liquor store in Bethel. Longtime resident Bob Carlson, at microphone, was the first of residents and community leaders who lined up to ask questions of Cynthia Franklin, ABC Board director. (Lisa Demer / Alaska Dispatch News)

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Alaska city awash in alcohol even without legal sales

Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, April 7, 2015 at 13:22 — Last Updated: Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at 17:31
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BETHEL — Even with no legal alcohol sales, the amount of hard liquor coming into this Western Alaska hub is

Aleksandr Serebryanikov, owner of the Bloger51 site, was in 2013 accused of violations of a criminal code paragraph on incitement of national, racial, or religious enmity. (Thomas Nilsen/Barents Observer)

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Arctic-based Russian blogger walks free

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 13:31 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 7, 2015 at 19:24
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Prosecutors in Murmansk end their case against the man behind the popular Bloger51 news site. Aleksandr Serebryanikov might finally be able

Some parts of Alaska's coastline have never been surveyed. (iStock)

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Alaska: Point Hope opts out of lawsuit over 2008 Chukchi lease sale

Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 18:45 — Last Updated: Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 21:54
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The lead plaintiff in a lawsuit that stalled Arctic Outer Continental Shelf oil drilling has pulled out of the 7-year-old

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Alaska: Project to arm village officers begins with just 3 making initial cut

Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 15:07 — Last Updated: Friday, March 13, 2015 at 20:37
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BETHEL — Just three Alaska village public safety officers passed background checks, a physical fitness test and a psychological evaluation so they

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Finland: British investor makes conditional bid for Talvivaara

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 12:48 — Last Updated: Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 20:29
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A British investment company specialising in corporate restructuring cases has tabled a conditional offer to purchase the beleaguered Talvivaara mining

The tugs Aiviq and Nanuq tow the mobile drilling unit Kulluk 80 miles southwest of Kodiak City, Alaska on Dec. 29, 2012. (Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis / United States Coast Guard / AP)

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Obama, oil drilling and injustice in Canada’s North: Arctic Week in Review

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, January 30, 2015 at 21:32 — Last Updated: Monday, March 19, 2018 at 12:59
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On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories on Eye on the Arctic this