1. Agreement between Norway and Russia on maritime delimitation
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... reached a breakthrough in the most important outstanding issue between Norway and the Russian Federation,” said Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. The agreement is subject to ratification by the ...

2. 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 ...

3. U.S. strategic interests in the High North
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... security perspectives from both the US and Canadian, Russian, Danish and Norwegian perspectives. Geopolitics in the High North researchers Heather Conley, director of CSIS' Europe Program, Professor Rolf ...

4. 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), ...

5. 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  ...

6. 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 ...

7. Books, chapters and reports 2009
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... 2009 Pavel Baev: "Trouble-making and risk-taking: The North in Russian military activities", Russia and the North, UoO Press 2009 Pavel Baev: "Staying the Arctic course: An offer for cooperation ...

8. 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 ...

9. 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  ...

10. 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 ...

11. 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 ...

12. In the media 2009
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... Neft' Rossii, No 3, 30 March 2009 (in Russian). Katarzyna Zysk: ”Ny trussel fra sør”, Intervju, ABC nyheter, 20 March 2009. Maren Næss Olsen and Torbjørn Pedersen:  ”Oljefelttog ...

13. Other relevant publications 2009
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... a time of rapid change", The international journal of marine and coastal law, Vol 24, No 2, 2009, pp. 423-442 Kristian Åtland: The European Arctic in Soviet and Russian Security Policy, 1987-2007: ...

14. 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 ...

15. 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.  ...

16. Events 2009
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... issues for Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Finland, the Russian Federation, Canada and the United States. Participants heard also about prospects for rule of law in the Arctic, military operations, ...

17. Events 2010
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... Issues in International Security: U.S.–Russian–European Views, conference organised by Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College with the Assistance of the Bureau of Intelligence Research ...

18. Arctic summit in Canada
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... Meeting has been widely covered, and here you find a few links; US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's interview Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov comments press release from the Russian ...

19. ISA 2010 - new papers on Arctic challenges
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... the Russian Borderlands” .   More conference papers will be published asap. Meanwhile - visit the ISA's conference web site  ...

20. Shtokman and Arctic petroleum: A field too far?
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... Yamal Peninsula. But European and Russian demand has shrunk due to the economic downturn, thereby making the need for new field developments less urgent. In sum, there seems to be no persuasive ...