This study aims to examine Russia's academic and political discourses on the Arctic Council (AC), as well as Moscow's policies on and within the Council in the aftermath of the Ukrainian crisis, and to discuss Russia's agenda during its AC presidency in 2021鈥 2023. It is concluded that...
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The second disappointment has to do with international maritime transit along the Northern Sea Route (called Sevmorput in Russian). Many politicians in Moscow expected that climate change would shrink the Arctic ice, increase the commercial viability of a shorter connection between China and Europe, ...
"Arctic development is indeed costly for Russia, but the government deems it necessary, and legitimate, to perform 'great power status' across this new frontier, as well as to anticipate the negative impact of climate change for coastal regions in the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation," Ma...
Countries Compete for Oil and Natural Gas in the Arctic Russia, the United States and other countries are hurrying to control Earth's northernmost territory: the Arctic. It is rich in oil and natural gas. The countries want to use these and other natural resources for their citizens and to ...
1. the largest country in the world, covering N Eurasia and bordering on the Pacific and Arctic Oceans and the Baltic, Black, and Caspian Seas: originating from the principality of Muscovy in the 17th century, it expanded to become the Russian Empire; the Tsar was overthrown in 1917 and th...
“Russia has a heavy emphasis on the Arctic, and over half of it is in Russian territory,” Iris Ferguson, deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Arctic and global resilience, said in an interview with E&E News. “I don’t want to suggest they don’t have a place there. But we are...
Norway, which shares a border with Russia in the Arctic, has 36 Leopard 2 tanks in total. — Reuters Tue, Feb 14 20236:30 AM EST Stoltenberg: More important Sweden, Finland join NATO soon than together NATO criticized Russia's nuclear rhetoric after Moscow's announcement at the weekend that...
(Placename) a vast region of Russia and N Kazakhstan: extends from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific and from the Arctic Ocean to the borders with China and Mongolia; colonized after the building of the Trans-Siberian Railway. Area: 13 807 037 sq km (5 330 896 sq miles) ...
Russia is amassing unprecedented military might in the Arctic and testing its newest weapons in a region freshly ice-free due to the climate emergency, in a bid to secure its northern coast and open up a key shipping route from Asia to Europe.