More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Moscow has built more than 475 military ...

Seven of the eight Arctic Council members (all but Russia) promptly decided to boycott meetings over the war and only met again in 2023 to oversee the handover of the chairmanship to Norway.

then seven of the eight Arctic nations will be members of the bloc. This could greatly enhance the Arctic Council's ability to set forth a more rigorous, multilateral security approach to tackle ...

In 1996, these countries formed the Arctic Council — a forum that includes all eight countries as member states along with representatives from Indigenous groups. But while the Arctic was once ...

As part of the international response to the invasion, the other seven members of the Arctic Council paused cooperation with Russia in that body. Upon assuming the two-year chairmanship in May ...

The United States and like-minded members of the Arctic Council are grappling with how to revitalize this unique regional grouping of governments and non-governmental indigenous participating ...

the Arctic Council – consisting of the US, Canada, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Russia – paused its operations. Since resuming, the "western members have rightly refused a ...

which is aimed at solving acute issues of the region," Putin said in his welcome speech to participants of the fourth international meeting of the Arctic Council member states and observer states ...

The Arctic is one of the coldest and least populated regions on Earth, much of it covered by ice. But in recent years it has ...