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Nornickel supports public-private-partnership platform for Taimyr’s indigenous peoples Several regions across the country have positive examples of such projects, but distribution of this experience has been limited, a leader of the Low-Numbered Indigenous Peoples Union said NOVOSIBIRSK, April 14. /TASS/. The Norilsk Nickel Company (Nornickel) will support the initiative to organize a pilot platform for public-private partnership (PPP) projects for the North’s low-numbered indigenous peoples on the Taimyr Peninsula, Nornickel’s Vice Present on federal and regional programs Andrei Gra...

Scientists say impact diamonds have absolutely unique technology features KRASNOYARSK, April 12. /TASS/. Development of the Popigai deposit of impact diamonds in the Krasnoyarsk Region’s north will offer new raw material to the global industry. An annual demand for it in various sectors may be up to 1 billion carats. Development of the resources, which formed after a meteorite hit the Earth 36 million years ago, will require common efforts of the Krasnoyarsk Region and Yakutia, experts told TASS. Read also Presently, the global industry uses natural technical and artificial diamonds; most o...

Cleanup in Taimyr nature reserves may continue for decade Earlier reports said about a site with empty barrels from oil products near Lake Ayan in the Putorana Nature Reserve KRASNOYARSK, April 5. /TASS/. Optimistic forecasts say it may take 5-10 years to remove all the waste barrels from Taimyr’s nature reserves. Within the current year, the reserves will put together a plan to collect and transport to the mainland the barrels, which remain on the peninsula since the Soviet times, the reserves’ Director Konstantin Prosekin told TASS. Earlier reports said about a site with empty barrels f...

What is a “Reindeer Cyclone?” Live Science said that Vikings hunting reindeer in Norway were astonished by these reindeer cyclones. If a herd felt a threat, it would run in circles, making it nearly impossible to target a single animal. In 2019, PBS aired a documentary called “Wild Way of the Vikings” about the Nordic area around the year 1000 A.D. One of the documentary's scenes shows a re-enactment of a Viking hunt with real footage of reindeer herds. Reindeer were important to the Vikings for their meat, hides, antlers and bones, according to the film. (Below) In the cyclone scen...

Russia Considers Spending Wealth Fund Billions on Infrastructure Bloomberg 4 days ago Evgenia Pismennaya and Anya Andrianova (Bloomberg) -- Russia may spend billions of dollars from its wealth fund this year on infrastructure and other investments, and projects related to Rosneft PJSC’s huge Vostok Oil venture in the Arctic are high on the list of candidates, according to two officials with knowledge of the discussions. The largesse could represent a significant boost in spending as the government has been cutting back on other stimulus introduced last year amid the corona...