More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Moscow has built more than 475 military bases along its northern border.
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Russia, China sign off on Northern Route shipping deal to slash global freight times
By Ben Aris in Berlin Russia and China have signed a landmark agreement to develop and commercialise theNorthern Sea Route (NSR), after Beijing tested the route last month, that could slash ...
"We see that Arctic cooperation is also very possible in our international context. For example, between the far east of Russia and the west coast of the US." Putin did not give details, nor did Trump ...
Donald Trump has suggested he will look at plans floated by a senior Kremlin official to create a 70-mile undersea tunnel ...
On a wind-blasted plateau high above the most northerly town on Earth, arrays of white spherical domes stand like sentinels in the Arctic snow. Hidden from casual observers below in Longyearbyen, the ...
For more than 100 years, Russia has illegally occupied Wrangel Island, an American-claimed island in the Arctic—and has now fortified it with a military base. As Russia’s militarization of the Arctic ...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has continued to press Moscow over its annexation of Crimea and its support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime in a long-running civil war. But his Liberals ...
The Arctic journey is billed as the first step in China’s quest to open a “Polar Silk Road,” a commercial shipping route ...
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