Materials

How Yakutia suffers from the climate crisis and coal pollution—while ramping up production of the dirtiest fuel on the planet

From the destruction of the tundra to Patrushev’s role on the Maritime Board: five key Arctida texts of 2025

What Indigenous representatives are demanding

A report from Russia’s diamond capital—a city where luxury is nowhere to be found

We explain what’s wrong with reindeer herding — and where the domestic reindeer really go, on the ground and on paper.

A senator from Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (KhMAO) covering oil companies now heads RAIPON, the organization meant to protect the rights of Russia’s indigenous peoples.

Cooperation in the Arctic is facing a crisis amid growing geopolitical tensions. We explain how this affects the work of the Arctic Council and what future scenarios are possible.

For a long time, sustainable development of the Arctic, including its Russian part, relied on a global consensus regarding the exceptional status of these territories and waters.