Commentary
Andrey Treenin: The U.S. Is Creating a Large-Scale Government Support System for the Strategic Metals Industry
Tools of such policy should be applied more broadly in Russia as well On August 20, 2026, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the allocation of $500 million to seven selected projects aimed at expanding domestic processing capacities for critical minerals and materials, battery production, and recycling in the United States. Commenting on this...
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Ekaterina Serova: China’s icebreaker fleet growth creates new Arctic cooperation opportunities with Russia
What do Beijing’s growing technological competencies in polar shipbuilding indicate? Ekaterina Serova, Director of the International Relations Department at the Project Office for Arctic Development (PORA), spoke to the Norilsk-based publication Severny Gorod about the development of China’s icebreaker fleet and how the balance of power in the Arctic is shifting amid growing interest from...
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Alexey Tsykarev: Combating Desertification Has a Bearing on the Survival of Arctic Indigenous Peoples
Arctic reindeer herders must not be left voiceless in the global fight against desertification The UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has long been perceived exclusively as a document concerning land degradation in the arid regions of Africa or Central Asia. It is participants from these macro-regions who predominate at the 17th Conference of the...
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Irina Strelnikova: «The Icebreaker Fleet Deficit Remains a Critical Vulnerability for the United States»
PORА expert on the U.S. icebreaker fleet as a stumbling block in its struggle for influence in the Arctic Attention to the icebreaker fleets of Russia and the United States intensified after a Russian delegation at the 31st session of the Assembly of the International Seabed Authority in late July 2026 refused to recognize the...
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Maksim Dankin: The preferential regime in the Arctic should become more adaptive
At the Arctic – Regions Forum, participants discussed how to improve the effectiveness and transparency of preferential regimes and better account for the specific characteristics of different territories and industries Maksim Dankin, Director General of the Project Office for Arctic Development (PORA) and a member of the Public Chamber of Russia, served as moderator and...
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Ekaterina Serova on RBC-TV: Paradigms of Perception of the Northern Sea Route by Russia and China
For Russia, the NSR is a national transport artery and an element of the spatial development of the Arctic, while for China, the NSR primarily serves a transit function On August 11, 2026, during the broadcast of the program «The Day. The Main News» on RBC-TV, Ekaterina Serova, Director of the International Department of the...
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Milena Milich: Climate Agenda as a Driver of Regional Resilience
From the Sakhalin experiment to an Arctic model of low-carbon development; regional climate policy can be not declarative, but managerially coherent and economically meaningful The 2nd International Forum «Islands of Sustainable Development: Climate and Ecology,» held on Sakhalin at the end of July 2026, reaffirmed once again that the climate agenda in Russia today is...
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Sergey Nikonorov: Arctic cities are becoming drivers of a new economy
The Arctic could become a powerful macro-region with a sustainable economy and high quality of life, provided that its resource orientation is balanced with investments in human capital, technology, and ecology The Arctic is an outpost, a space where the technologies of the future are born. It is here, in the polar cities, that solutions...
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