Despite Russia’s post-invasion isolation, some narrow openings for Arctic cooperation remain

International Indigenous organizations offer some of the few opportunities for continued communication with Russia.

Russia comprises half of the world’s Arctic region, so how can Arctic cooperation proceed without Russia? And for Alaska, which shares bodies of water, marine ecosystems, animal populations, cultures and, in some cases, language and even family ties across the Bering Strait, how can those shared resources and interests be protected when communication with Russian neighbors has been nearly silenced?