The Arctic Conversation Podcast

For three seasons The Arctic Conversation has conversed about topics such as Climate change in the Arctic, Green economy, the situation for indigenous people, rearmament and many other Arctic topics.

This episode looks back with guest Tim Andersson Rask, Barents Press Sweden on past themes and the organisation behind the podcast, Barents Press. This episode is the last, at least for a while of the Arctic Conversation.

Thank you for listening during these three season From all of us at The Arctic Conversation.

COP-26 is taking place in Glascow, and the world is directed to the Carbon Neutral Economy. Even Russian Economy will be carbon neutral by 2060. Huge investments is at the same time being invested in the production of the worlds first green steel, made without coal.

Hosts Thomas Nielsen, Kirkenes and Anna Kireeva, Murmansk discuss the huge investments in the Green economy taking place in Norrbotten and Västerbotten with journalist and author Arne Müller. What is happening in Northern Sweden, will the electricity production be enough and how will this affect the world?

Hosts Anna Kireeva, Russia and Thomas Nielsen, Norway invite Pavel Andreev from the Media organisation 7x7 Horizontal Russia to discuss how the Arctic regions voted, how media covered the election, what happened to Navalnys “smart voting” and how in some regions the election can be marked as fair, such as Pavel Andreevs own Komi region.

But is it sustainable? How does the tourism companies in the North manage questions regarding sustainability and the more recent Covid-19 pandemic?

Listen to a interesting Arctic Conversation with hosts Anna Kireeva and Thomas Nielsen with guests, Sanna Tarssanen from House of Lapland and Julia Kuzminykh, tourism entreprenour.

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Topics touched upon in this episode:

What will be Russia's main priorities? 

How does Russia plan to develop its Arctic territories?

Russia says that they want to increase their production of oil, gas and fossil fuels. How will this affect the global trade? 

Join hosts Anna Kireeva and Thomas Nielsen for an interesting conversation with Norwegian journalist Atle Staalesen about the upcoming Russian chairmanship of the Arctic Council.

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Join hosts Anna Kireeva and Thomas Nielsen for an interesting conversation with Canadian journalist Gloria Dickie about Corona and journalism in the Arctic.

The third season of the Arctic Conversation Podcast will feature two old/new hosts:Thomas Nielsen from the Barents Observer andAnna Kiereva from Murmansk, RussiaThe third season of the Arctic Conversation will feature an even deeper dive in the current news and stories from the Arctic, the Arctic Council, Climate change and of course the geopolitical issues of today.

Stay tuned for the third season!

While melting sea ice and thawing permafrost in the Arctic are getting increasing attention around the world, climate change is definitely not the only important story in the Arctic. This episode will focus on the harsh reality of the Rearmament of the Arctic region.Listen and join our arctic conversation with

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This is the final episode of the second season of The Arctic Conversation. Stay tuned for season three, thanks for listening!

Pat Kane from Canada and Katarina Hällgren from Sweden who both identify as indigenous people discuss the various misrepresentations from an Canadian and Swedish perspective. What pictures about the indigenous are portrayed to the general audience?Listen and join our arctic conversation with #ArcticConversation!

Host: Pat Kane

Katarina Hällgren

The cross border trade has since the early 1990’s been a source of pride for the Barents Cooperation, linking the Nordic countries to Russia and vice versa.

How has the cross border trade affected the population living in the border areas and beyond? And how has the Covid-19 pandemic affected the situation? Russian journalist Anna Kireeva and Finnish journalist Mari Molkoeslkä discusses cross border trade in this episode of the The Arctic Conversation Podcast.