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.

By Martin Breum December 6, 2019
1997

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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