Diamond Detour
How Russian Diamonds Continue to Reach Europe and the US Despite Sanctions
Key Stakeholders of the Russian Arctic
Who really makes the decisions about the region’s development? This project helps uncover who shapes Russia’s Arctic agenda today — and makes regional decision-making more transparent and easier to understand.
Like Fish in Water: Patrushev Ushers Security Forces to the Arctic
The Russian Maritime Board is turning into a new power structure and a personal PR project for Presidential Aide Nikolai Patrushev.
What we do?
Investigations
We expose who influences the Russian Arctic and how — from opaque projects and conflicts of interest to sanctions evasion.
How Russian Diamonds Continue to Reach Europe and the US Despite Sanctions
We explain what’s wrong with reindeer herding — and where the domestic reindeer really go, on the ground and on paper.
Despite restrictions related to the Arctic LNG 2 gas plant project, shipments from Italy to Russia via the UAE and China have amounted to 134 million euros.
How the Australian coal miners who scarred Chukotka are connected to Russian officials and Yanukovych's inner circle
Research
The structure and transformation of the Russian Arctic: research into key processes and trends.
Who really makes the decisions about the region’s development? This project helps uncover who shapes Russia’s Arctic agenda today — and makes regional decision-making more transparent and easier to understand.
The Russian Maritime Board is turning into a new power structure and a personal PR project for Presidential Aide Nikolai Patrushev.
As global powers wrangle over control of the Arctic, a new and unexpected contender has quietly staked its claim: microplastic. What can be done about a pollutant that has already reached the North Pole?
What’s Wrong with the Relationship Between Industry and Indigenous Peoples in Russia
Transparency of Arctic activities is the foundation of a sustainable future
