1. Arctic Council met in Ilulissat
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... human health, follow-up of recommendations in the 2009 Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment, the task force on search and rescue (co-chaired by Russia and the USA), contaminants and finally, Arctic observations ...

2. Agreement between Norway and Russia on maritime delimitation
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“I believe this will open the way for many joint projects, especially in the area of energy,” President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia said at a news conference. “This is a historic day. We have ...

3. Arctic energy resources - curse or blessing?
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New working paper: Energy security is back on the international political agenda and the European-Russian energy game is complex. In this new working paper Dag Harald Claes (University of ...

4. U.S. strategic interests in the High North
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... of the issues in a broader regional perspective. He also gave an overview of the historic agreement between Norway and Russia on maritime delimitation in the Barents Sea, which was signed in Oslo the previous ...

5. Research links:
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...  Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI) International Polar Year 2007-2008 Institute of Marine Research (IMR) The Institute of Universal History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (UIH), ...

6. International organizations links:
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... Polar Year 2007-2008 Nordic Council The Northern Forum russianforces.org: information about nuclear weapons, arms control and disarmament based on open scientific analysis  ...

7. Strategy documents links:
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US Arctic Region Policy, 2009 (in English) Russian strategy for the Arctic, 2008 ( in Russian) The European Union and the Arctic Region, 2008 The Northern Dimension of Canada's foreign ...

8. Books, chapters and reports 2009
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... North Legal-Political Regime", Security Prospects in the High North: geostrategic Thaw or Freeze? , NATO Defense College, 2009 Katarzyna Zysk: "Russia and the high north: Security and defense ...

9. Articles and papers 2009
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...  Anastasia Kasiyan: "The visits of Russian, British and German Navies to Norwegian waters, 1905-1914", History and culture of the Russian North and Nordic countries from the ancient time until ...

10. Articles and papers 2010
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... Development in the Barents Euro-Arctic Transport Area (BEATA) in English and in Russian Robert Huebert (University of Calgary): Polar frontiers, Armed Forced Journal, March 2010  ...

11. Articles and papers 2008
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...  Aleksey A. Komarov: "The USSR – Norway: some characteristics of bilateral relations", Proceedings of XVI Conference on Scandinavian and Finnish Studies, 2008 Anastasia Kasiyan: "Russian ...

12. In the media 2010
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... Zysk:  Putin speaks out in favour of development of the Arctic within the framework of international law, Interview, Voice of America , 16 March 2010 (in Russian) Katarzyna ...

13. In the media 2009
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...  Pedersen, Torbjørn:  "Jakten på nordområdene". Morgenbladet, 30 October 2009 Katarzyna Zysk: ‘Russia’s new military doctrine. The role of nuclear weapons’, Norwegian State ...

14. Other relevant publications 2010
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... Lawson Brigham: Think again: The Arctic, Foreign Policy, September/October 2010  Vijay Sakhuja: Northern Sea Route and Russia's exploitation strategy, issue brief, Indian Council of World Affairs ...

15. Other relevant publications 2009
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...  “When Security Speech Acts Misfire: Russia and the Elektron Incident”, Security Dialogue, Vol. 40, No. 3 (2009) , pp. 333–353 Oran R. Young (UCSB):  "The Arctic in play: Governance in ...

16. Other relevant publications 2000-2008
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... in Russian security policy: overcoming the legacy of fear - or reproducing it?, European security, Vol 17, Nos 2-3 (2008), pp. 227-251 Arild Moe (FNI) and E. Wilson Rowe (NUPI)): "Northern ...

17. Events 2008
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... Zysk: “Russian Military Power and the High North. Russlands interesser i Barentshavet og rollen av militærmakten”, Annual Air Power Seminar, Trondheim, 2-5 February 2008.  ...

18. Events 2009
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Katarzyna Zysk: "Arctic security in the 21st century: The view from Russia and Canada", The Department of War Studies, King’s College London, University of London, 25 November 2009. Harald ...

19. Events 2010
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Katarzyna Zysk: Russia’s Naval Ambitions: Driving Forces and Constraints, Emerging Naval Powers – Cooperation and Conflict at Sea Conference, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, ...

20. Arctic summit in Canada
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News: 29 March the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs hosted a five-nation Arctic summit. The Foreign ministers from the Arctic states Canada, Norway, Russia, Denmark and the U.S. gathered in ...