14 Jun: The ruling party in Finland’s coalition government chooses minister Alexander Stubb to succeed current Prime
Minister Jyrki Katainen. (Barents Observer)
13 Jun: Northern Research
Forum and Arctic Yearbook staff host a workshop in Montreal welcoming President of Iceland
Olafur Ragnar Grimsson
and other luminaries.
20 Jun: The Canadian Chairmanship of the Arctic Council announces that Patrick Borbey will
move from his role as Chairman of the Senior
Arctic Officials. He will be replaced by Vincent
Rigby. (Nunatsiaq News)
17 Jun: Russian security
service agents conduct
a major joint exercise at
one of the country’s main
Arctic oil installations.
(Barents Observer)
1 Jun: Calotte Academy 2014 brings together
researchers
from around the Arctic
in the Barents region.
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20 Jun: China publishes its first-ever guide for
sailing the Northern Sea Route. (Barents Observer)
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10 Jun: The first online
atlas of Inuit Arctic
trails is launched. (Progressive Geographies)
10 Jun: The Canadian
Government grants
approval for seismic
testing off the coast of
Baffin Island in summer 2014. (CBC)
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1 Jul: Gazpromneft-Sakhalin announces the start of
exploratory work at the
Dolginskoye field in the
Pechora Sea. (UPI)
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9 Jul: Japan’s Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd and China’s China Shipping Development Co. announce that they will begin regularly-scheduled shipments of Siberian LNG through the
Arctic Ocean to East Asia. (Wall Street Journal)
19 Jun: Word is released that Canadian fighter jets have been scrambled twice in the past two weeks
to track Russian bombers near to
Canadian airspace in the Arctic.
(Globe & Mail)
16 Jun: Despite earlier protestations to the
contrary, Lukoil announces it will invest
money in Arctic exploration via a joint venture with Gazprom. (Barents Observer)