In Saint Petersburg started International forum "Arctic: present and future"

The congress and exhibition center "Expoforum" met today participants of XIII International forum "Arctic: present and future". It will pass on December 7 and 8. More than two thousand experts take part in action, including from abroad. Also for the first time to a forum invited school students — pupils of 7 and 8 classes will be told about the professions demanded on Far North and about features of life in this region. The chairman of Committee Saint Petersburg for Arctic Herman Germanovich Shirokov at opening of a forum read welcome speech on behalf of the city governor Alexander Beglov. In the speech it...