The Arctic Century

In 2023, lithium prices collapsed due to a glut in the market. It happened everywhere except Russia, which stopped producing its own lithium in the 1990s, and has now lost its traditional suppliers, Chile and Argentina...

Russia, a vast and resource-rich country, has long relied on its primary sector for exports, particularly in the form of gas and oil, together with other valuable resources. Since the beginning of Russia's Special Military Operation in Ukraine in February 2022, the US government has thus been working to impose sanctions on Russia's oil and gas industry with the specific aim of causing significant economic damage...

Indo-Russian relations involve a long political knowledge and respect for mutual interests in different foreign policy issues. Today new promising approach is opening up—deep cooperation in the Arctic.

Despite heightened geopolitical uncertainty, sanctions apparently somehow managed to circumvent the issues of Russian LNG supplies to Europe...

The participants of the 3rd Sino-Russia Arctic School weighed the pros and cons of potential transition to green Arctic transportation which involves low-carbon technologies, green energy supply systems adopted to extreme low temperatures.

International scientific cooperation with Russia was stopped in the Arctic because of special military operation in Ukraine started in February 2022. At the same time this cooperation is in demand for projects of global significance...

Since the Arctic is of great geoeconomic and geopolitical importance for both Russia and India, the question arises, to what extent will Russia's BRICS Chairmanship help these two countries in expanding cooperation between them in this region?

On February 28, Morten Høglund announced that the eight Arctic States reached consensus to gradually resume official Working Group meetings in a virtual format...