GOVERNMENT

OF THE YAMAL-NENETS AUTONOMOUS OKRUG

INSTITUTE OF LEGISLATION AND COMPARATIVE

JURISPRUDENCE UNDER THE GOVERNMENT

OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

V INTERNATIONAL ARCTIC LEGAL FORUM

«PRESERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

OF THE ARCTIC REGION: LEGAL ASPECTS»

November 29 – December 2, 2017

St. Petersburg

PROGRAM

V International Arctic Legal Forum

“Preservation and Sustainable Development of the Arctic Region: Legal Aspects”

November 29 –December 2,2017

St. Petersburg, local time

November 29, Wednesday

00:00 – 24:00 Arrival of participants and guests of the Forum:

- from Pulkovo Airport

- from Moscow, Baltic, Vitebsk, Ladoga and Finnish Railway Stations in St. Petersburg

- via personal transfer

00:00 – 24:00 Check-in at the hotels Note: The main accommodation venue for the participants of the Forum is the Ambassador Hotel

Address: St. Petersburg, 7, Rimsky-Korsakov Prospect, 5

12:00 – 21:00 Lobby of the Ambassador Hotel:

- registration of Forum participants

- distribution of handouts for the participants and guests of the Forum

- collection of participants’ reports (from electronic storage devices)

- meeting point

20:00 – 22:00 Bus tour around St. Petersburg

November30, Thursday

07:00 – 8:30 Breakfast at the Ambassador Hotel

08:00 – 8:45 Transfer to the Mariinsky Palace (the main Forum discussion platform) Address: St. Isaac’s Square, 6

Note: Entrance to the Mariinski Palace is via passport/ID cards

09:00 – 10:00 Registration of the participants

10:00 – 11:30 Plenary session “Global Tendencies of the Arctic Space: Society. Ecology. Law.”

Moderators:

Dmitry N. Kobylkin, Governor of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, PhD in Economics

Taliya Y. Khabrieva, Director of Institute of Legislation and Comparative Jurisprudence under the Government of the Russian

Federation, L.L.D., Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

10:30 – 11:30

Welcome Addresses:

Dmitry N. Kobylkin, Governor of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, PhD in Economics

Viachesav S. Makarov, Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, Professor

Taliya Y. Khabrieva, Director of Institute of Legislation and Comparative Jurisprudence under the Government of the Russian

Federation, L.L.D., Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Dag Malmer Halvorsen, the Consul General of Norway in St. Petersburg

Speeches:

Olga N. Epifanova, Deputy Chairman, Member of Control and Regulations Committee of State Duma of Federal Assembly

of the Russian Federation, «Legislative foundation of development of the Far North areas, areas of Far East regarded as the Far

North areas and territories included in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation”

Viktor A. Olerskii, Deputy Minister of Transportation of the Russian Federation – Head of the Federal Agency on Sea and River

Transport, «Preservation and development of the Arctic. Legal aspects»

Sergei M. Yamkin, Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, «Normative legal regulations

of environment protection and provision of ecological safety in the northern regions of the Russian Federation»

Viktor F. Novozhilov, Chairman of the Arkhangelsk Regional Deputies Assembly, «Legal regulations of affairs related to

preservation and development of the Arctic»

Elissan V. Shandalovich, Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of Republic of Karelia

Mikhail M. Kucheryavyi, Vice Governor of Leningrad Oblast – Head of the Office of the Governor and the Government of

Leningrad Oblast

Nikolai A. Evmenov, Vice Admiral, Commander of the Northern Fleet, «Activities of the Northern Fleet on liquidation of ecological

damage and cleaning the islands (sea shore) from polluting substances in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation»

Vladimir A. Pushkarev, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Regional Policy and North and Far East Affairs of State Duma of

Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, «Liquidation of ecological damage in the Arctic: experience and challenges»

11:30 – 12:15 Break and briefing

11:30 – 12:15 Coffee pause

Presentation of the photo exhibition dedicated to the Arctic Region

12:15 – 14:00 Plenary session “Global Tendencies of the Arctic Space: Society. Ecology. Law.”

(continuation)

Moderators:

Aleksei V. Sitnikov, First Deputy Governor of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Sergei N. Khariuchi, Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Chairman of the

Committee on State Structure, Municipal Self-Management and Public Relations, L.L.D.

Speeches:

Aleksei V. Sitnikov, First Deputy of the Governor of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, «Principles of legal regulations of

nature management and environment protection in the Arctic Region»

Sergei N. Khariuchi, Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Chairman of the

Committee on State Structure, Municipal Self-Management and Public Relations, L.L.D., «Building balanced mechanisms to meet

the interests of the indigenous peoples in the conditions of intensive exploration of the Arctic reserves»

Grigorii P. Ledkov, Member of the Committee on Nationalities Affairs of State Duma of Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

Kirill E. Kondrashov, Head of the Unit on creation and implementation of the programs and projects focused on support of the

indigenous peoples of the Division on targeted and special programs and projects of the Federal Agency on Nationalities Affairs,

«Federal law development tendencies on protection of the rights of the indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and Far East and

aboriginal habitat»

Pavel S. Kondukov, Director of the Group on providing the services to the Oil and Gas Companies of the Department of Taxation

and Juridical Consulting KPMG, «Main legal issues of the Arctic shelf deposits development»

Igor L. Shpektor, President of the Union of Trans-Polar and Far North Towns of Russia, Head of the Commission on Housing and

Utility Services, Construction and Roads of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation.

Valerii B. Mitko, President of the Arctic Public Academy of Sciences, PhD in engineering,«Legal foundation of information security

in the Arctic region»

14:00 – 15:00 LunchandCoffeeBreak

15:00 – 17:00 Work of the 1st section: “Society, ecology and law in high latitudes”

Moderators:

Sergei A. Bogolubov, Head of the Department of Ecological Legislation of the Institute of Legislation and Comparative

Jurisprudence under the Government of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Juridical Sciences, Honored Worker of Science of the

Russian Federation

Dmitrii G. Zharomskih, Chairman of the Committee of Industry, Environmental Management and Ecology of the Legislative

Assembly of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Candidate of Juridical Sciences

Agnès Michlo, Director of the Center of Legal and Political Studies at the University of La Rochelle, President of the French

Society of the Environmental Law

Coordinator:

Speeches:

Dmitrii G. Zharomskih, Chairman of the Committee of Industry, Environmental Management and Ecology of the Legislative

Assembly of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Candidate of Juridical Sciences, “Issues of legal support for the creation of a

new system of handling solid household waste in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug"

Igor P. Bobrovnitskii, Head of the Scientific Unit of the Organization of Public Health and Environmental Medicine,the Center for

Strategic Planning and Management of Medical and Biological Health Risks,the Ministry of Public Health of the Russian

Federation, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences,

Sergey M. Yudin, Director of the Center for Strategic Planning and Management of Medical and Biological Health Risks, the

Ministry of Public Health of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Medical Sciences,

"Legal aspects of the strategic planning and implementation of programs of scientific and technological development of the public

health system in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation"

Elena G. Zlenko, Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Chairman of the

Committee on Social Policy, Housing and Communal Services, "Some issues of federal legislation improvement in the sphere of

social policy of the Arctic region"

Anatolii I. Sak, the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug,"Mechanisms of interaction between

civil society and governing authorities in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug"

Maksim U. Zadorin, Senior Researcher of the Arctic Center for Strategic Studies,M.V. Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal

University, Candidate of Technical Sciences, "Review of legal innovations on issues of national ethnopolitics for the year of 2017"

Vladimir S. Kotlyar, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Envoy, Member of the International Legal Counsel under the Ministry of

Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the United Nations International Arbitrator for the Law of the Sea, Doctor of Juridical

Sciences, "Are the tasks of resources development of the marine and land areas of the Russian Arctic compatible with the task of

ensuring the sustainable development and preserving the ecology of this region?"

Dmitrii V. Pogoreliy, Director of the State Legal Department of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Candidate of Juridical

Sciences

Marat Sh. Abdrahmanov, Chairman of the Committee for the Development of the Agro-Industrial Complex and the Affairs of the

Indigenous Peoples of the North of the Legislative Assembly of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Candidate of Sociological

Sciences, "The status and prospects of the northern reindeer breeding development in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug"

Vladimir P. Emelyantsev, Senior Researcher of the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Jurisprudence under the Government

of the Russian Federation, Candidate of Juridical Sciences

Tanya Yoona, Senior Researcher of the Arctic Center of the University of Lapland, Head of the Doctoral Program "Communities

and Changing Labor", Doctor of Social Sciences,"The youth of indigenous peoples and demographic challenges in the Arctic -

legal prospects"

Inna A. Ignateva, Professor of the Department of Environmental and Land Law, the Juridical Faculty, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow

State University, Doctor of Juridical Sciences, "Legal issues of production and consumption wastes management"

Arsenii V. Mitko, Head of the Young Scientists of the North Section, Candidate of Engineering Sciences, "The main directions of

implementation the national social standard "Arctic Ecological Safety”

Natalya A. Demidova, Deputy Director for Scientific Work, Federal Budget Institution "SevNIIIL", Candidate of Biological

Sciences, "Forest use by indigenous peoples of the North on the North West Federal District forest funds territory"

MarinaV. Minina, Docent, North-West Management Institute of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public

Administration, Candidate of Technical Sciences, «Legal regulations of regional governing authorities and population relations in

the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation»

AleksandraN. Terekhina, Researcher, CentreofArcticandSiberianResearchesofSociologicalInstitute of the Russian Academy of

Sciences (St. Petersburg) «Pre-School Education for nomadic children: topical challenges and perspectives»

TatianaV. Rednikova, ResearcherofEcologicalandLegalResearchersSector, Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of

Sciences, PhD in Law, «Ecosystems of the Arctic region: legal issues of protection»

17:00 – 17:30 Remarks in the “free microphone access” format

Discussion of the results of the 1st section “Society, ecology and law in high latitudes”

17:30 – 19:00 Transfer to the Ambassador Hotel

Free time

19:00 – 21:00 Buffet dinner for the guests and participants of the forum (access via invitations)

December01, Friday

07:00 – 8:45 Breakfast in the Ambassador Hotel

Conference Halls of the Ambassador Hotel Note: Access to the Forum events is via personalized participant cards

09:00 – 11:30 Work of the 2ndsection: “Themodernmodelof public

resourcemanagementon the Arctic territories: problems and

perspectives” (1st Hall)

Moderators:

Sergei D. Valentei, Research Supervisor, Plekhanov Russian

University of Economics, PhD in Economics, Professor

ElenaG. Zlenko, Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Assembly

of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Chairman of the

Committee on Social Policy and Housing and Communal

Services

VeraI. Smorchkova, Professor of the Russian Presidential

Academy of National Economy and Public Administration,

Acting Member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, PhD in

Economics

Speeches:

Work of the 3rd section: “Business Activity in the Arctic.

Legalaspectsofcooperation»(2ndHall)

Moderators:

Kuan Zeng Zun, Professor of the Institute of Border and Marine

Studies, the State Joint Innovation Center for Territorial

Sovereignty and Maritime Rights and Interests (Wuhan

University of the People's Republic of China)

NellyM. Bevelikova, Head of the Department of East Asian

Legal Studies, the Institute of Legislation and Comparative

Jurisprudence under the Government of the Russian Federation,

Candidate of Juridical Sciences

Speeches:

MarinaA. Ermolina, Associate Professor of the Department of

World Politics, St. Petersburg State University, Candidate of

Juridical Sciences, "International legal aspects of Arctic marine

Aleksei A. Sharonov, Advisor, Forest Seed-Growing and State

Monitoring of Forest Reproduction Unit, Division on Forest Use

and Reproduction, «Improvement of the state ecological

monitoring with respect to the state forest reproduction

monitoring in the Arctic zone of the European part of the Russian

Federation»

Mikhail Y. Ezerskii, Head of the Oil and Gas Field Legal Acts

Examination Unit, Juridical Department, Ministry of Energy of

the Russian Federation, Candidate of Technical Science,

«Participation of MinistryofEnergyoftheRussianFederationin

legal control of the relations devoted to the activities the Arctic

zone of the Russian Federation»

Viktor N. Mosharev, Acting Director of Non-Commercial

Organization «Association «Arctic Municipalities»,

«Challenges in the social and economic development of

municipal units, located in the Arctic zone»

Nadezhda A. Chertova, Head of the Board, Non-commercial

Organization Association «Arctic Legal Centre», LLD, «On the

particular status of the Arctic territories»

Sergei N. Chernov, Head of the Administrative and Finance Law

Department, Head of the Centre of Comparative and Legal

Research of the Northern Research Institute, Petrozavodsk State

University, LLD, «Legal issues of protected areas net

development in Karelia Arctic areas»

Nikolai V. Kichigin, Leading Researcher, Institute of

Legislation and Comparative Jurisprudence under the

Government of the Russian Federation, Candidate of Juridical

Sciences, «Integration of state Arctic and ecological policy:in

the search of synergetic effect»

environment protection from accidental pollution caused by

ships"

Kaifei Ou, Postgraduate of the Institute of Border and Marine

Studies of the State Joint Innovative Center for Territorial

Sovereignty and Maritime Rights and Interests (Wuhan

University of the People's Republic of China), "East Asian

countries in the Arctic: aspects of partnership and cooperation"

AndreiA. Todorov, Senior Researcher of the Russian State

Institute of Strategic Studies,Candidate of Juridical

Sciences,"Arctic region in the light of international law"

Zheng Xinyu, Postgraduate of M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State

University, "China: international cooperation in the Arctic"

ElenaF. Gladun,Executive Editor of BRICS Law Journal,

Candidate of Juridical Sciences, "Arctic and BRICS countries:

legal aspects"

DavidD. Baramidze, Candidateof Saratov State Law Academy,

"Application of the sectoral principle in the regulation of

environmental protection issues in the Arctic"

DenisV. Gudkov, Director of the Association "Arctic Right

Center", "Arctic Legal Center"

Nadezhda K. Kharlampieva, Senior Researcher of the State

Scientific Centre of the Russian Federation «Arctic and

Antarctic Research Institute», Candidate of the Historical

Sciences,

Vladimir V. Ivanov, Leading Researcher of the State Scientific

Centre of the Russian Federation «Arctic and Antarctic

Research Institute»,

«Inland surface waters of the Russian Arctic with respect to

environmental and water legislation»

Alena V. Kodolova, Senior Researcher of St. Petersburg

Research Centre of Environmental Safety of the Russian

Academy of Sciences, Candidate of Juridical Sciences, «Legal

issues of ecological damage indemnity caused by natural

resources developers in the Arctic zone of the Russian

Federation»

Anastasiia V. Kalmykova, Senior Researcher of Institute of

Legislation and Comparative Jurisprudence under the

Government of the RussianFederation, «Public administration

in the Arctic: in the search of balance between the public and

private interests»

Dmitrii A. Demin, Director of the State Institution of the Yamal-

Nenets Autonomous Okrug «Centre of Legal and Analytic

Work», «Ethnological examination: conception legal aspects»

Elena A. Galinovskaia, Acting Head of the Natural Resources

Legislation Unit of the Institute of Legislation and Comparative

Jurisprudence under the Government of the Russian Federation,

Candidate of Juridical Sciences, «Strategic planning in the

Russian Arctic – conceptual and legal approaches»

Anni Y. Nikylina, Assistant to the Department of Organization

and Management, St. Petersburg Mining University, «Social and

economic mechanism of human resources attraction to the

Arctic»

Sofia B. Rozenfeld, Researcher, A.N. Severtsov Institute of

Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences,

Candidate of Biological Sciences,«On urgent need to harmonize

the federal legislation to preserve and protect from the

exhaustion use the arctic birds»

11:30 – 12:00 Coffeebreak.

12:00 – 13:00 The final meeting of the forum. Discussion and approval of the Forum’s resolution as well as the implementation plan for

the adopted decisions.

Interactive transmission through the informative (tele)communicational network “Internet”

14:00 – 18:00 Tour to Эрмитаж

18:00 – 24:00 Free time

December02, 2017, Saturday

07:00 – 8:30 BreakfastatAmbassadorHotel

0:00 – 24:00 Departure from the hotels:

- to the Pulkovo Airport;

- to the Moscow, Baltic, Vitebsk, Ladoga and Finnish Railway Stations in St. Petersburg

- via personal transfer

ANNOTATION

First section “Society, ecology and law in high latitudes”

In the first section, we plan to discuss the issues of global trends in the development of high latitude societies in the context

of legal aspects and contemporary challenges. By putting human beings at the top of thevalue pyramid and focusing on their rights

and freedoms, the forum allowed to work out calibrated and effective legal solutions and to formulate practical proposals, directed at

perfecting the law system based on the interests and unique features of the Artic Regions’ population.

Owing to the consolidation of efforts, the question of registering nomad and part-nomad citizens, who have no constant place

of residence, was solved, which allowed those citizens to use their rights to the fullest extent as well as adopt modern methods of

domestic management.

However, despite the positive achievements and strides, some legal questions of ensuring the realization of citizen rights

determined by the territorial characteristics as well as way of life of indigenous northern population remain to be resolved. One of the

aspects that needs immediate attention is the legal gap that requires people to have a constant place of residence in order to be able to

adopt children, while the indigenous nomad and part-nomad population of north leads a type of life that does not provide such

accommodation, which makes them unable to adopt.

It should be noted that the legal aspects of social and domestic infrastructure of health care, housing, and communal services

of the Arctic region will be, as before, heavily focused on. Solving these problems would positively influence the demographic

indicators of the forum’s expert community.

Comfortable accommodation, wide infrastructure and perspectives of developing along with the region can become a decisive

factor in attracting young qualified staff and their families for constant residence in the Arctic latitudes. The legal problems of creating

such conditions are one of the key moments of discussion within the framework of this section’s meeting.

The issues of: supporting the traditional way of life,as well as culture in the modern social and economic realities,of the small

indigenous northern population; legal regulators of the integration of their traditional way of life (as one of the ethno-preserving

factors) into the market economy; attracting these people to open their own businesses based on the traditional forms of domestic

hosiery (gathering and preparing of wild herbs, artwork production, event and ethnic tourism) will also not be ignored.

Global processes are very inert, which, taking into accountthe contemporary trends, suggests that in medium-term the

consumption of energy resources will grow, therefore increasing the extraction rate, which will inevitably affect the territories of

traditional nature use.

Through discussing these problems, we are planning to find the model of the balance of interests, which would contribute to

the harmonization of industrial and traditional nature use processes.

Undoubtedly, throughout the “Year of Ecology in Russian Federation”, special attention will be paid to the questions of

environmental protection and preservation of unique ecosystem.

The subsoil of the Arctic Region is a strategic resource base of a number of countries, and is able to provide solutions to the

arising strategic tasks it faces, including the tasks of social and economic development.

However, the subsoil of the Artic Region is not only a large-scale natural resources storage, but also a unique vulnerable

ecosystem that could be damaged by an ineffective and irresponsible use of nature.

This thesis predetermines the relevance of finding qualitatively new legal approaches to responsible uses of nature, insuring

against ecological risks, minimizing the environmental damage depositing, liquidating the damage that has been accumulated,

compensating for the environmental damage dealt, and actively introducing ecological monitoring practices.

We also plan to consider the best international practices of legal regulation in the relevant public relation spheres and their

approbation in the conditions of Russian Arctic.

Overall, thedialoguebetweenstatesmen, leading scientists and experts, representatives of the business society and publics will

be directed at suggesting real mechanisms of legal regulation that are capable of providing a stable balance between public and private

interests in the Arctic region.

Second section: “The modern model of public resource management in the Arctic territories: problems and

perspectives” The modern Arctic Region is a colossal resource potential that needs weighted, zealous and at the same time effective

approaches to its management.

Stating the public understanding that a stable development of Russian Arctic should be based on a clear and transparent legal

nature,both defining general legal requirements to the sides of a relationship (and guaranties of the stability of legal regime rules) and

taking into account the unique characteristics of arctic territories, actualizes the problems of building the modern governmental model

of administration in the regions of high latitudes.

One of the national decisions based on the project approach is a concept of forming support zones of focused development in

the Russian Arctic.

The approach presupposes a complex aid to the development of support zone territories as a single project that is firstly

oriented in the infrastructure and resource-extracting vector that has a multiplicative effect and functions as a powerful catalyst to the

positive socio-economic processes of the macro region of the Russian Arctic Zone.

Implementation of this large-scale and ambitious project could not be possible without the complementary legal regulators

that allow deviations from the general, sectoral regulation principles, which do not take the specifics of the Arctic region into account,

towards the approaches of comprehensive special regulation of territorial activity among the support zones of development. This fact

by itself assumes the transition back to the open dialogue about the concept of implementing a “systematic” federal law that would

define the approaches to the development of Russian Arctic.

In addition, the transition from the sectoral principles of regulation assumes the construction of scientific, evidence-based

approaches to the inventorying of the legal regulators.

The outlined questions will become discussion topics within the framework of the second section of the forum.

The attention of the participants will also be drawn to the question of rearranging the administrative power among the levels

of management and looking at such more successful practices more closely.

One more direction the discussion will take will be the issues of further development of the public-private partnership that

demonstrated positive results in implementation of joint projects.

It is clear that the states that will create the most loyal conditions for the partnerships of the transnational extraction sector

giants will enjoy noticeable competitive advantages in dynamic development.

By demonstrating a significant dependence on the governmental support, the projects of the public-private partnerships do not

always bring a stabilization effect for the arctic territories upon implementation. Indeed, despite the accumulation of financial

resources and erection of large-scale projects, there is often a capital outflow from the Arctic Region. It can be confirmed that on the

modern stage it is not enough to simply find an investor with capital, but is more important to build a system of partnership that will

use his resources to benefit the arctic regions and to carry the burden of the socio-economic commitments.

Thisstateofaffairsposes another challenge for the state administration: to increase the level of constant residents of the arctic

region that provide capital. This challenge requires all-round studying and discussing as well as consolidation of potentials.

Undoubtedly, the future of Arctic rests in the hands of young specialists. Young scientists, activists, public figures demonstrate

a stable interest in investigating high latitudes. We plan to hold a round table of the Arctic Youth Competence Centre “Personnel. The

needs of a business – competence of youth” within the framework of the second section of the forum and in this vector of artic

territories exploration.

Third section “Business Activity in the Arctic. Legal aspects of cooperation”

According to the regulations on Strategies of Russian Federation Arctic zone Development and Ensuring of national security

until 2020 (enacted by the president of Russian Federation), one of the prioritized directions of Russian Federation Arctic Zone

development and national security provision is the creation of international partnerships in the Arctic region and ensuring military

safety, defense and protection of the Russian Federation state border in the Arctic Region.

The international cooperation practice that has established over the past 30 years has shown a positive effect of multilateral

interstate interaction, as well as the interaction of business institutions, representatives of indigenous minorities, public associations

and the scientific community.

As the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, has noted, new promising large-scale projects will be launched in

the richest Arctic region, including some in collaboration with our foreign partners. Undoubtedly, such cooperation should be based

on a stable international legal framework in an atmosphere of full mutual understanding and mutual respect.

Taking the guidelines set by the Head of State into account, we plan to discuss issues of ensuring the security of the Arctic

space, conducting interstate rescue missions and actions, international legal regulations of the maritime navigation regime along the

Northern Sea Route, legal aspects of using modern GIS technologies.

The contemporary global vectors of the Arctic law development clearly influence the formation of Arctic law in Russia as a

separate industry. Specifics and dynamics of relations in high latitudes imply the search for a new concept for their regulation.

The peculiarity of the legal activity regime in the Russian Arctic is that regulation is based, on one hand, on the norms of

international conventions, and on the other, on sectoral national legislation, taking into account regional specifics applied to a specific

subject, which does not fully correspond to the current trend of global unification and simplification norms of the international legal

regime.Consideration of this problem should become an important part of the forthcoming discussions.

An equally important part of the discussion should be the implementation of resource-intensive projects related to the use of

intellectual foreign capital and investment in the production of the Arctic region in the context of the legal field. The unilateral refusal

of foreign partners to implement joint projects in the Russian Arctic in connection with the application of Western sanctions often has

negative legal consequences requiring their resolution.

Overall, such circumstances actualize the issue of introducing alternative regulators, capable of providing a stable and

comfortable investment climate for our new partners.

A separate area of discussion will includethe theoretical issues of regulation of international relations in the field of

development of bio resources arising from the processes of ice surface reduction in the Arctic due tothe global warming. Theoretical

views in this direction, given the interest in these resources by many, including non-Arctic, states, are very relevant today.

Summing up, according to the results of this section’s work, we expect to draw the main conclusions about the directions of

development of the international legal regulation of the Arctic regime, and to adopt recommendations for its improvement.