Special Presidential Representative for International Cooperation in the Arctic and Antarctic Artur Chilingarov thanked Rossiya Segodnya and arctic.ru for covering Arctic development. The message to the agency's Director General, Dmitry Kiselev, reads:

"I would like to express my gratitude for the productive cooperation and the special attention Rossiya Segodnya has given to covering the current issues of developing the Russian Arctic. I would like to specially thank the agency's project arctic.ru for its skillful coverage of Russia's presence in the Arctic. I hope that Rossiya Segodnya will remain a partner of the Arctic: Today and the Future International Forum in the future."

Rossiya Segodnya was the general media partner of the VII International Forum, Arctic: Today and the Future, which took place in St. Petersburg on December 4-6 2017. Rossiya Segodnya is an international media group whose mission is to provide quick and accurate news coverage and to inform the public about various points of view on key events. The agency's media projects include RIA Novosti, R-Sport, RIA Nedvizhimost, RIA Rating, Prime and InoSMI. Sputnik international agency and radio represents the group abroad Russia.