The Federation Council approved the law on the expansion of the Arctic zone of Russia
RU EN

The Federation Council approved the law on the expansion of the Arctic zone of Russia

Clean Arctic  
03-22-2024
 

The Federation Council approved the law on the inclusion of the Berezovsky and Beloyarsk municipal districts of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Yugra into the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation.

The law should enter into force 10 days after its official publication.

Nine new investment projects are planned to be implemented in both districts, which will allow attracting more than 3.5 billion rubles in the near future. rubles of private investment.

As Alexey Chekunkov, the head of the Ministry of Regional Development, noted earlier in his Telegram channel, thanks to entering the Arctic zone of the Berezovsky and Beloyarsk municipal districts of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Yugra, all Arctic benefits will become available to them: unique business conditions, Arctic mortgages, free land plots.

Earlier, the law on the inclusion of two districts of Yugra into the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation was adopted in the second and third readings by the State Duma.

# Russia
More
03-18-2025
PORA Study: 75% of Arctic Residents Satisfied with Quality of Life
The Project Office for Arctic Development (PORA) has published the results of a large-scale sociological study on the quality of life in the northern regions of Russia
03-05-2025
Progress in the Socio-Economic Development of Norilsk
This week, a meeting took place in the Federation Council with the head of Norilsk Dmitry Karasev and Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Nikolai Zhuravlev, where they discussed the progress of the implementation of the city’s comprehensive social and economic development plan, initiated by the Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko five years ago
02-03-2025
Norilsk Nickel Launches "World of Taimyr" Project Competition
Norilsk Nickel has announced the launch of its annual social project competition, "World of Taimyr," aimed at supporting initiatives for the development of the indigenous small-numbered peoples of Taimyr
01-29-2025
In 2025 activists of the "Clean Arctic" to clean up territories in the battlefields of the GPW
The main area of work of the Clean Arctic public environmental project in the year of the 80th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War will be cleaning the battlefields and the labor feat of the people in the rear, the press service of the project reported
01-28-2025
Norilsk Nickel to Discuss 2024 Sustainability Report at Online Broadcast on January 29
On January 29, 2025, Norilsk Nickel will host a live broadcast on its Rutube channel as part of the "Dialogues with Stakeholders" series, focused on the preparation of the company’s 2024 Sustainability Report
01-27-2025
World's Largest Iceberg Changes Course, Threatens British Island
The world’s largest iceberg, A23a, has shifted direction and is now drifting west