>The report, released on October 11, was commissioned by the Prime Minister’s office in Finland in spring 2022.
>The study was led by the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland and involved Gaia Consulting Oy and the Finnish Institute of International Affairs.
>Among the issues the team was asked to examine were the impact of Russia’s Ukraine invasion on international Arctic cooperation as well how it might affect the implementation of Finland’s 2021 Arctic policy strategy.
>The Russian invasion also prompted Finland and Sweden to apply to NATO. Their applications were approved and the accession protocols for both countries were signed on July 5. The 30 member countries must now ratify the protocols. Turkey and Hungry are the remaining two countries to do so.
>Once completed, the new geopolitical configuration in the North, dividing the Arctic between NATO countries and Russia, will put Finland as NATO’s easternmost member in the North.
>*This story is posted on the Barents Observer as part of Eye on the Arctic, a collaborative partnership between public and private circumpolar media organizations.*
Submitted 18 October 2022, 08:09 GMT+2.
All talk now. But we’ll see what happens in 5 years (if we’re all alive).
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Filed by Eilís Quinn, October 12, 2022.
>The report, released on October 11, was commissioned by the Prime Minister’s office in Finland in spring 2022.
>The study was led by the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland and involved Gaia Consulting Oy and the Finnish Institute of International Affairs.
>Among the issues the team was asked to examine were the impact of Russia’s Ukraine invasion on international Arctic cooperation as well how it might affect the implementation of Finland’s 2021 Arctic policy strategy.
>“During the next six months, things may change again in many ways, but one thing is certain, there will be no return to the pre-war reality,” said the report’s authors [in an English summary](https://www.arcticcentre.org/loader.aspx?id=dc19ee9b-6ede-4ffb-9611-0aa531bef0b7) of the [85-page Finnish-language only report](https://julkaisut.valtioneuvosto.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/164369/VN_Selvitys_2022_2.pdf).
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>The Russian invasion also prompted Finland and Sweden to apply to NATO. Their applications were approved and the accession protocols for both countries were signed on July 5. The 30 member countries must now ratify the protocols. Turkey and Hungry are the remaining two countries to do so.
>Once completed, the new geopolitical configuration in the North, dividing the Arctic between NATO countries and Russia, will put Finland as NATO’s easternmost member in the North.
>*This story is posted on the Barents Observer as part of Eye on the Arctic, a collaborative partnership between public and private circumpolar media organizations.*
Submitted 18 October 2022, 08:09 GMT+2.
All talk now. But we’ll see what happens in 5 years (if we’re all alive).