President Barack Obama’s recent trip to Alaska helped draw attention to global climate change — and to the national-security tensions that could result from a warming Arctic region. Surveyors believe that the seabed under Arctic waters could contain hundreds of billions of barrels of untapped oil. As the North Pole becomes more accessible, and so more valuable, Arctic countries — each with its own and in some cases overlapping territorial claims — are getting ready for some serious competition.
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- Russia Plans 'Strategic' Economy Boost in Arctic
A large port that will be built in Russia's far northwestern Murmansk region by 2028 will boost the local economy, regional governor Andrey Chibis said. Chibis made the remarks after Belarusian ...
04/23/2024 - 3:16 am | View Link - Russia pounds exhausted Ukrainian forces
Russian troops are ramping up pressure on exhausted Ukrainian forces to prepare to seize more land this spring and summer as muddy fields dry out and allow tanks, armored vehicles and other heavy ...
04/19/2024 - 10:24 am | View Link - Russia pummels exhausted Ukrainian forces with smaller attacks ahead of a springtime advance
Last November, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ordered his forces to build trenches, fortifications and bunkers behind the more than 1,000-kilometer front line, but analysts say ...
04/18/2024 - 6:03 pm | View Link - The U.S. Is Trying to Cripple Russia’s Vast Arctic LNG Project
Supercooled gas has quickly become one of the world’s most important energy sources—and a flashpoint between Russia and the U.S. Nowhere is that contest more apparent than in Russia’s Arctic ...
04/13/2024 - 6:01 pm | View Link - Russia's FSB says British special forces operating in Ukraine
MOSCOW, April 11 (Reuters) - Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday that Britain's Special Boat Service had been operating in Ukraine and helping Ukrainian forces carry out ...
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