Roshydromet will conduct a large-scale study of the Arctic
The Russian government has allocated 868.75 million rubles for the organization and conduct of scientific research Transarctica-2019. The corresponding order is published on the website of the Cabinet of Ministers.
Roshydromet will undertake comprehensive scientific research of the Arctic, as well as send four research vessels there that will monitor the condition and pollution of the marginal Arctic seas, RIA Novosti reports.
As part of the experiment, it is planned to freeze the Akademik Treshnikov scientific-expeditionary vessel into the Arctic ice.
Note that at present, a kind of "battle for the Arctic" has begun in world geopolitics. The USA has already expressed their desire to tidy up the wealth of the Circumpolar region.
The Arctic has significant reserves of oil and natural gas. It is rather difficult to conduct their extraction due to the fact that the Arctic region is very poorly populated.
In particular, the population of Novaya Zemlya is only about three thousand people. ' [https://ren.tv/novosti/2019-02-26/rosgidromet-provedet-masshtabnoe-issledovanie-arktiki?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=desktop]
The comment.
Firstly, the usefulness of scientific research in the Arctic, no one doubts, I suppose. I leave aside the questions of the research program and the specific areas of use of the allocated financial resources.
Secondly, I don't know about the 'battle for the Arctic' ...; the Arctic Council has been created. Created to jointly resolve Arctic problems by the Arctic countries.
Thirdly, phrases like '... the Arctic region is very poorly populated. In particular, the population of Novaya Zemlya is only about three thousand people. ' lead to an ironic attitude.
It seems that the authors of such phrases heard a lot of radio doggies and radio bull terriers, depicting (relatively) prosperous countries as something suspicious and subject to ridicule, and Russia's problems (economic, social, environmental and others) as something natural. Radio doggies and radio bull terriers gallantly do not notice the situation with the change of leadership in the statistical office.
"Some stupid people ... console themselves with the talk that ... we have a lot of territory, a lot of land ....
... But such conversations are completely false and not clever ...
... Our funds [resources] are not unlimited.
... We have much less territory ... [... We have, now, in a real situation, a lot less territory...]"
The talks about the "wealth" of the Arctic is based on the idea that they will be able to "catch" [to hook] something, and later all will somehow be resolved by itself ..
In fact, various kinds of environmental problems are increasingly being converted into financial problems (aggravating the budget and population).
Strange thing: the USSR, Russia had a significant advantage in the high-tech space industry. Nobody cares about the gradual loss of Russia's priority positions in this high-tech sphere. But the problems of weak population of the Arctic excite someone.
It makes sense to remember the fate of the Aral Sea and the fate of the population of those countries that are located in the Aral Sea basin.
You can look at this population. No need to go far ...
February 26, 2019 13:30
Translation from Russian into English: June 8, 2020 06:05.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Рассказ об интересе к Новой Земле и к белым медведям днём 26 февраля 2019 г.'.