The Arctic Century

This year's forum, Arctic: Today and the Future, was held for the 14th time. The event was named after its legendary pioneer, polar explorer Artur Chilingarov. As outlined in the program, the priority of the event focused on a 'human-centered' Arctic.

Past, present, and future of the Northern Forum.

Military solutions received the most attention in Europe and the US during the first two and a half years following the escalation of conflict in Ukraine in February 2022. In late 2024, the situation has started to change...

Strategically located between Russia, China, India and the Greater Middle East, Kazakhstan may have a bright future in what some analysts call the upcoming Asian Century...

The Arctic Century has interviewed Alexander Osadchiev, a Russian oceanologist, a leading researcher at the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, chief researcher at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.

The Indigenous People of the North live in an apparently contradictory situation. Given their isolation from traditional trade routes and the harshness of the climate of the regions they live in, they never developed statal organizations, let alone imperial ones, and their land was often subject to territorial conquest by more powerful neighbors...

The concept of 'carbon-free vessels', which are expected by the IMO leadership and like-minded western counterparts to be capable of navigating the cold Arctic seas, is experiencing difficulty after change of American administration in January 2025...

We pick up where our previous discussion left off, turning our focus back to the United States; a global Superpower, yet, rather mysteriously, one still far from real Arctic dominance.