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Diamond market crash is Africa’s opportunity, not its crisis – M'zée Fula Ngenge
Global natural diamond supply is forecast to fall below 95 million carats this year, the lowest since 1987. For Dr. M'zée Fula Ngenge, chairperson of the African Diamond Council (ADC), this is not a death knell but a clarion call. In an exclusive...
12 october 2026
Tracr passes 5 million rough diamonds milestone as De Beers expands provenance push
De Beers Group's blockchain-enabled traceability platform Tracr reached a significant milestone in 2025, with more than 5 million rough diamonds individually scanned and registered, up from 2.8 million cumulative registrations reported in 2024. The...
28 september 2026
South African diamonds head to Hong Kong: SDT partners with BRINKS for JGW 2026
South Africa’s State Diamond Trader (SDT) has confirmed the country's participation in Jewellery & Gem World Hong Kong (JGW) 2026 through a partnership with BRINKS. SDT marketing and communication manager Tsholofelo Gopolang Tselapedi...
14 september 2026
David Benderly: PermaScribe seeks to put trust mark on diamond table, not just girdle
In this interview with Rough & Polished’s Mathew Nyaungwa, PhotoScribe Technologies president and chief executive David Benderly explains how PermaScribe differs technically from conventional laser inscription, its potential to strengthen security, and...
31 august 2026
The great reset: Paul Zimnisky on supply catharsis, De Beers' bargain and the case for natural diamonds
The natural diamond industry is in the throes of its most profound reset in a generation. Supply is plunging to its lowest level since 1987 and De Beers—once valued at over $9 billion—is reportedly being sold for as little as $1 billion.
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10 august 2026
Preservation of the cultural heritage of the indigenous peoples of the Arctic to be discussed at the summit in Moscow
01 november 2022
The Summit of Indigenous Peoples of the Arctic on November 2 in Moscow is dedicated to discussing projects and initiatives to preserve their languages, cultural heritage and lifestyle, as well as issues of their socio-economic development.
Researcher on New Norwegian-Russian Fisheries Agreement: “Shows How Important the Cooperation Is for Both Parties”
31 october 2022
On Tuesday, it became known that Norway and Russia have agreed on next year's fisheries in the Barents Sea, despite the fact that the negotiations have taken place with the Ukraine war and with an increasingly more tense security situation as a backdrop. Geir Hønneland, one of Norway's leading researchers on Norwegian-Russian fisheries cooperation, shares his views on the new agreement with High North News. "The key here is that Norway and Russia have actually agreed on a quota agreement for 2023 and that they have set the total quotas according to the scientific recommendations. They have also stayed within the Joint Norwegian-Russian Commission's own negotiation framework on quota determination for the various fish stocks," says the senior researcher at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI) and continues: "None of them seems to have exploited the tense situation in order to put forward special demands or challenge the other party unnecessarily, like demanding total quotas that exceed the researcher's advice. Or at least, such demands have not come to fruition, and the parties have stayed loyal to the negotiation framework." That is striking in today's situation, Hønneland points out.
The modernization of the largest wind farm in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation
28 october 2022
The modernization of the largest wind farm in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation has been completed in Chukotka, RusCable.ru writes with reference to the telegram channel of the head of the region Roman Kopin.
The Kola wind farm will be put into operation in January 2023
27 october 2022
The Kola Wind Farm, which is the largest wind farm beyond the Arctic Circle in Russia, will begin operation in January 2023, said Oleg Kosmenyuk, Deputy General Director - Director of Generation at PJSC Enel Russia.
Cargo traffic on NSR to exceed forecast and to reach 33.8 million tonnes this year
26 october 2022
Cargo shippers will achieve the target of cargo transportation by the Northern Sea Route set for 2022. The planned result of 31–32 million tonnes is expected to be exceeded and to reach 33.8 million tonnes.
Magmatic rock body containing strategic metals found on Kola Peninsula
25 october 2022
Scientists have discovered a dike in the Kovdorsky district - a magmatic rock body, which is a deep substance of the Earth's mantle frozen in the earth's crust, the press service of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia reports. Dike minerals contain high concentrations of rare strategic metals, which exceed similar concentrations in super-large rare-metal deposits. The study makes it possible to evaluate the concentration process of rare elements at the latest stages of alkaline magmas.
Main Directorate of NSR warns about lack of icebreakers
25 october 2022
The Northern Sea Route (NSR) may lack icebreakers, IAA PortNews correspondent cites Vladimir Arutyunyan, Head of Marine Operations Headquarters at Glavsevmorput (Main Directorate of the Northern Sea Route), as saying at the 10th International Forum “Arctic Projects - Today and Tomorrow”.
“The third nuclear-powered icebreaker, Ural, will start operating this year. It has been practically chartered for Vostok Oil. Construction of two more icebreakers is to be completed in 2024 and 2026. They will immediately go to the regions where they are highly needed. We are short of icebreakers,” said the speaker.
Under an agreement with FSUE Rosmorport, the fleet of icebreakers operating on the NSR can be expanded with I/B Kapitan Dranitsyn, I/B Krasin, I/B Admiral Makarov and others.
The Main Directorate of the Northern Sea Route FSBI has been operating as a part of Rosatom from 1 August 2022 under the Decree of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.
In accordance with Presidential Decree of 2018, the State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM performs the functions of a single infrastructure operator for the development of the Northern Sea Route. The company operates the world’s only fleet of nuclear-powered icebreakers.
The Northern Sea Route is a single transport system in the Russian Arctic sector. It stretches along the northern coasts of Russia across the seas of the Arctic Ocean (Kara, Laptev, East Siberian, Chukchi seas). The route links the European ports of Russia with the mouths of navigable rivers in Siberia and the Far East. In August 2022, a plan for the development of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) until 2035 was approved. The plan includes over 150 activities with total financing nearing RUB 1.8 trillion.
