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This year the Northern Forum is celebrating its 30 year anniversary. The Northern Forum is an international organization of Northern Regions founded in Alaska on 8 November 1991.
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The Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources has set a reindeer hunting quota for 2021 after receiving proposals from the Environment Agency. Up to 1220 animals, 701 cows and 519 bulls will be allowed to be hunted during the year.
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In a recently published article in the Arctic Circle Journal, THE GLOBAL-ARCTIC MISSION COUNCIL, Lassi Heininen, Professor Emeritus,Editor of the Arctic Yearbook, Chair, Arctic Circle Mission Council on the GlobalArctic writes on the ‘Global Arctic’, a research approach initiated by the GlobalArctic Project in 2014, one of the perspectives and discourses on the Arctic.
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Tripadvisor just announced their selection of the Best of the Best -Travellers´ Choice 2021. This time around Vatnajökull National Park in Iceland was nominated the second best National Park in Europe, following the Yorkshire Dales National Park, UK.
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Main issues pertaining to international cooperation in the Far East and the Arctic between Russia and Japan were discussed by Alexei Chekunkov, head of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Economic Development, and Toyohisha Kojuki, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Russia.
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On 27 January 2021 Microsoft announced that they added Inuktitut text translation to their Translator app, Office and Translator for Bing.
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Following his first article in the Arctic Circle Journal on Russia's New Arctic Strategy, Ambassador Anton Vasiliev now describes Russia's strategy on the Northern Sea Route.
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The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum for tackling global issues through independent research and open dialogue, announcedAmbassador Mark Greenwill take the helm as President, Director and CEO.
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Prime Minister of Norway Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin, Prime Minister of Sweden Stefan Lövfen, Prime Minister of Iceland Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Minister of Foreign Affairs Ine Eriksen Søreide of Norway, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy / Vice-President of the European Commission Josep Borrell, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland Guðlaugur Þór Þórdarson, United State Senator from Alaska Lisa Murkowski, investor Scott Minerd and ministers from several other countries as well as eminent scientists, indigenous leaders, think tanks, experts in health, ocean, business and more will share their knowledge and insights at the digital conference.
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The JOURNAL is a new Arctic Circle platform. It publishes statements, notes, memorandums, essays, short reports and other texts of relevance to the Arctic and our interconnected world. The purpose is to provide insights, understanding and new information.
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As our users may have already experienced the Arctic Portal highly comprehensive and popular Inter-Map Interactive mapping system is blocked from user access since Adobe no longer supports Flash Player after December 31, 2020 (Adobe Flash Player reached the end of life ) and then blocked Flash content completely from running in Flash Player beginning January 12, 2021.
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According to the news provider the Guardian in an article written by Emily Holden the Trump administration´s last minute attempt to auction off part of a long-protected Arctic refuge to oil drillers brought almost zero interest from oil companies.