Arctic Circle 2014: Welcome to the new global Arctic
The Arctic has been no stranger to foreigners for quite some time. Although Icelandic President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson opened the…
The Russian Far East, the Arctic, and foreign trade
On Monday, I wrote about the diamond mine located in Mirny, a city in the Sakha Republic in the Russian…
Seen from space: A Siberian diamond mine
A Siberian mine makes for a visually arresting site from space given that it sits smack-dab in the middle of…