⚡️Press release on a Foreign Ministry Board meeting On October 27, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov chaired a Foreign Ministry Board meeting to discuss the situation in the Baltic-Arctic Region. The attendees included Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Admiral Alexander Moiseyev; President of the Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation (AIPNSFE) and Federation Council Senator Alexander Noviukhov; Head of the AIPNSFE and the Russian Far East delegation to the Arctic Council and Federation Council Senator Anna Otke; representatives from the Presidential Executive Office, the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and the Arctic, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the Rosatom State Corporation, relevant agencies and organisations, and heads of the Foreign Ministry departments. • The participants focused on the military and political situation in the region, including the West’s unfriendly steps seeking to militarise the region, restrict navigation, and contain Russia in general. • The participants analysed threats and challenges to Russia’s national interests and ways to overcome them, prospects for unlocking the logistical potential of the Trans-Arctic Transport Corridor and the Northern Sea Route, and issues relating to ensuring the security of the Kaliningrad Region. • The importance of restoring the Arctic Council’s full-fledged operation was underscored, as was the need for depoliticised international contacts involving indigenous peoples and members of the expert and research communities. • Preparations for the 7th International Arctic Forum, The Arctic: Territory of Dialogue, Murmansk, March 2027, were discussed. • Particular attention was paid to prospects for expanding mutually beneficial project cooperation with the constructively-minded non-Arctic countries. • Russia’s self-sufficiency in high latitudes and its unwavering openness to pragmatic dialogue based on mutual respect with foreign stakeholders, as well as its commitment to the traditional goal of maintaining peace and stability in the region were reiterated.