Local skepticism meets government optimism at a major Arctic event in Russia
Russia has big development plans for its Arctic regions. The people who live there worry those plans won't do enough to help their communities.
A large Russian conference on Arctic development kicked off on Thursday in Saint Petersburg with optimistic government presentations — but also a burst of skepticism from representatives of those actually living in Russia’s Arctic and Far East regions.
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