The Oleninskoye gold deposit on Kola Peninsula has a much higher potential than previously thought, a new study shows.

OTTAWA - A leading Inuit group on Friday lamented not being invited to a meeting of Arctic foreign ministers later this month, saying any decisions taken at the summit would greatly impact them.

Animals in the Arctic have increased in number over the last 40 years, but populations closest to the North Pole are shrinking, a new international study says.

-We are working within the frames of the rules formulated by the United Nations, on the basis of international law, Putin said yesterday about his country’s policies towards the Arctic. He maintained that there lately has been too much noise around studies of the Arctic.

The EU foreign minister meeting in Lapland this weekend was a turning point in the construction of a new union foreign policy, EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton says.

To understand more about the Arctic, the Canadian and Korean governments signed a memorandum of understanding recently for joint cooperation in arctic research.

The Oslo goup of the Norwegian Labour party demands permanent oil-free areas outside Lofoten and Vesterålen.

Wildlife numbers in the lower Arctic have risen over the last 30 years according to msnbc.com, but animals that live closest to the North Pole have seen a sharp drop, according to a report released Wednesday.

The Norwegian Barents Secretariat gets NOK 36 million to bilateral Norwegian-Russian project cooperation in 2010, up one million from last year.