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Fighting it out over the Arctic, with the vast resources of the Arctic, is going to be the new great game of the twenty-first century,” Steve Bannon, who served as chief strategist early in President ...
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Russia has revealed the RITM-400 nuclear reactor—its most advanced yet—destined to power the next generation of nuclear icebreakers. At the heart of this initiative is the 'Rossiya', an ...
The Arctic, the most northern region on Earth, takes in the icy extremities of Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and Alaska in the United States, as UNEP partner, GRID-Arendal ...
The Arctic Ocean is now emerging as a new area for economic exploitation. Estimates suggest that the deep sea holds as much as 13% of the world’s undiscovered oil reserves and 30% of its ...
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced an Arctic version of the Tornado-G multiple launch rocket system (MRLS) to be launched this year, 2025. This is just one of several weapon systems recently ...
More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Russia has built more than 475 military bases along its northern border, according to The Economist.
Left unchecked, Russia “wants to claim the Arctic as theirs,” Adm. Daryle Caudle, Fleet Forces commander, said during a recent online Navy League event.
The archipelago sits in the Arctic Ocean, north from western Russia. Google Translate was used to translate the news releases from the Russian GeographicalSociety.