The Arctic Century

SPIEF 2025 became a significant milestone in discussing Russian Arctic's future. The forum demonstrated a growing role of international cooperation in the regional development and its transformation into a centre of technological innovation.

Norway, Finland and Sweden have long had a bad reputation at the UN for systematic violations of the rights of the Sámi, the country's indigenous people living in their northern provinces.

Finnish analysts are accustomed to a worldview in which the world revolves around their small country. The main conclusion of the article about NATO not being dead contradicts both President Macron's statements about NATO's brain death, which have already been firmly forgotten by Finnish experts, and a very recent statement by the Italian Defence Minister on June 20, made right before the publication of this article: NATO as it is, no longer has a reason to exist.

A recent report by the Confederation of Icelandic Industries estimates the cumulative financial needs for infrastructure maintenance at over 5,4 billion USD.

It turns out that Antarctica was discovered due to the need to supply the Arctic. By the middle of the 18th century, the route from Kamchatka to Alaska through the Aleutian Islands was well explored. Alaska then remained the last little-developed and almost unpopulated region of the Earth...

A new fleet plan for the Arctic and the North Atlantic will soon be launched. A billion-dollar plan will send worn-out ships to retirement and improve defence at home.

Smoke from wildfires in Canada descended on Skagway, Klukwan and Haines over the weekend, resulting in hazy skies and poor air quality.

On June 3rd, the ITSS Verona—a think tank run by students and early-career researchers working on security and international affairs—hosted a webinar on Arctic security in light of NATO's northern enlargement.