Blog – 2018: Recapping the year in the Arctic
Planet Earth has completed another rotation around the sun, which has now set on the Arctic for the next three
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Blog – How should we measure Arctic identity?
An intriguing survey on Arctic issues was published earlier this month by The Arctic Studio, a research organization based in
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Moscow-based media pretends to bring “objective” environmental journalism to Barents region
The head of the ecological monitoring and consulting group POMOR, Timofey Surovtsev, wants to counter Norwegian media’s negative reporting on
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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 Supreme Court upholds FSB ban on Barents Observer Editor Thomas Nilsen
Eye on the Arctic editor’s note: The Independent Barents Observer is part of the Eye on the Arctic circumpolar news partnership.
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Russia lashes out at Norwegian NGO over “russophobic” World Cup handbook
A guidebook for journalists issued by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee in connection with the upcoming Football World Cup is a
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Press Freedom Index: Finland slides again, Norway stays ahead
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published its annual Press Freedom Index on Thursday, placing Finland in fourth position. It’s the second
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Greenland braces for coalition talks to cut through election result murk
With Wednesday’s election result murk, the topsy-turvy world of Greenlandic politics is about to get a lot more interesting as
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Squirrel and deer live streams released for nature-loving Finns
The World Wide Fund for Nature has introduced new live camera streams to introduce nature lovers to the day-to-day activities
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Finland’s public broadcaster Yle names new CEO
The Finnish Broadcasting Company Yleisradio’s Board of Directors has named Merja Ylä-Anttila as the company’s new CEO, starting 1 September
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Cooperation, conciliation & Trudeau’s lashing by the NWT : 2017 Arctic year in review
The end of the year is often a time to take stock. And here at Eye on the Arctic, we’re
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Fishing diplomacy, rethinking China & how Twitter is improving northern news : 2017 Arctic Year in Review
The end of the year is a time to take stock. Here at Eye on the Arctic, it’s also the
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Alaska’s largest newspaper files for bankruptcy; new publishers emerge
Alaska’s largest newspaper filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Saturday evening and new owners have been lined up.
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Arctic Council ministerial – View from Russia
The United States hands the Arctic Council’s two-year rotating chairmanship to Finland on May 11th in Fairbanks, Alaska. Foreign ministers
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Alaska’s Arctic policy adviser falls victim to fake news — in Russia
Craig Fleener, the Arctic policy adviser for Gov. Bill Walker, was at a conference in Russia at the end of
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