The US has included the Akademik Alexander Karpinsky in a long list of new sanctions. Although restrictions are not likely to have an instant impact on this vessel’s Southern Ocean movements, they could cause US-aligned states to implement similar measures, experts note.
Pavel Lunev, a graduate of the UrFU Institute of Physics and Technology, achieved great success at the Sibirsky Medved (Siberian Bear) international competition. He managed to take two gold medals: one in the right arm and another in double-arm tourn
The Russian guests held negotiations with Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Aleksandr Kilchevsky. They took part in an expanded session of Belarus' interagency commission on Antarctica affairs.
The Akademik Alexander Karpinsky has departed South Africa to look for oil and gas in Antarctica, among other types of ‘scientific research’, her owners say. The ship leaves in her wake a determined cohort of climate campaigners who insist they will not let her off the hook.
Ongoing protests have hit Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront and harbour area to decry the arrival of a Russian ship en route to Antarctica, accused of prospecting the climate-stressed Southern Ocean. Following Our Burning Planet’s investigations, the peaceful rallies have provoked far-reaching reactio.