The Northern Gold Rush. The Northern Gold Rush By Tai AdelajaRussia Profile09/23/2010 The Message at the Highest Level Is That There Will Be No Confrontation in the Arctic, but the Race Is On.
Arctic Thaw. Arctic Thaw By Roland OliphantRussia Profile09/23/2010 Moscow’s Pledge to ‘Literally Clean Up’ Military Debris Left Behind in the Arctic Has Ecologists Encouraged, but Some Doubt Russia Will Really Make It Happen Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told this week’s International Arctic Forum in Moscow that the center of Cold War confrontation at the top of the world now exemplifies international cooperation and peaceful partnership.
Meanwhile, environmentalists are hoping that he will stand by his pledges to develop the Arctic region sustainably and carefully. Three years ago, a Russian mini submarine piloted by polar explorer Artur Chilingarov placed a small Russian tricolor on the seabed beneath the polar ice at the North Pole.
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