23 Apr: Russia expels Margarita
Atanasov, First Secretary at the
Embassy of Canada in Moscow,
in response to the expulsion
of Russian diplomat Yuri Bezler
from Canada on 8 April. (Pravda)
16 May: Eni (Italy) and Statoil announce that they
will delay the start of work at the Goliat oil field
in the Barents Sea until mid-2015 “following technical challenges and significant cost overruns.”
(Wall Street Journal)
27 May: Greenpeace activists occupy the
oil rig called Transocean Spitsbergen,
which is working for Statoil in the Barents
Sea. (Ecologist)
2 May: US Congressmen Jim Sensenbrenner and Rick Larsen introduce
a bill to establish a U.S. ambassador-at-large for Arctic affairs. (National Journal)
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26 May: Novatek signs a contract to supply 3 million tons of LNG per year, for 20
years, from the Yamal LNG installation to
China’s CNPC. (Barents Nova)
22 May: Eighth International Congress of Arctic Social
Sciences (ICASS)
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15 May: Chinese real estate magnate
Huang Nubo tells Norwegian national
radio that he wants to buy 216 square
kilometers on the Arctic archipelago of
Svalbard. (NRK)
20 May: Russian PM Dmitry
Medvedev warns that the US
and Russia are approaching “a
second Cold War”. (The Hill)
1 May: The Greenpeace ship “Rainbow Warrior” and 44 activists
attempt to prevent the tanker carrying Arctic oil from the Prirazlomnaya platform from docking in Rotterdam. They are arrested by Dutch law enforcement officials. (Guardian)
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30 May: NATO Secretary General
Anders Fogh Rasmussen suggests
that the alliance should map out a
plan for response to potential future Russian activity in the Arctic.
(Wall Street Journal)
30 May: Conference “Innovative
and Safe Cooperation in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region” takes
place in Karelia, with participation
of researchers from the Northern
Research Forum.