On behalf of the Russian president, the government has approved the inclusion of two municipalities of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug and Yugra - Berezovsky and Beloyarsk - to the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation. The bill will be introduced for approval to the State Duma soon.
The total area of the two new Arctic regions is just equal to one Greece at 130,000 square kilometers. At the same time, their population is only 52,000 people, according to arctic-today.ru.
Alex Shishlo for Rough&Polished