News & Views on the Russian presence within the Arctic Circle
6 April 2010
Following on from recent reports about the imminent application re: the Sea of Okhost at a conference called Nedra 2010 one Anatoly Smirnov announces that Russia will make a new submission to the UN’s Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf no sooner than 2013. The remarks were made at this meeting which makes it clear that A.I. Smirnov is an Academician and Dr. of Historical... Read More...
31 March 2010
While the meetings between the Arctic Five took place in Canada there were many reports of increased geographic activity from the Russian side. риа-новости and other sources have reported that the state budget for geography wil have increased by 6.3% during 2010. GZT.ru reports on a completed application to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf for an extension... Read More...
26 March 2010
While TACC reports opinion from within the USA ’s intelligence community that the Arctic will not become another zone of conflict независимое has sought out opinions from Russian politicians about this very issue. Foreign Minister Lavrov, for example, states that attempts to whip up rumours of conflict are unnecessary and counter-productive. Chilingarov argues that... Read More...
18 March 2010
вести.ru were the first to broadcast, there is video, Medvedev’s remarks to the Security Council of the Russian Federation. There is a need to obtain the correct balance between the competitiveness of Russia’s economy and measures to combat environmental change, according to Medvedev. This is fair enough but Medvedev also commented on the, ‘ недопустимости... Read More...
3 February 2010
Despite the recent doubts as to the economic prospects for the Shtokman project, which this blog will follow as best as it can, техноПрогресс has reported that 1.3 billions roubles has been allocated for hydrographic and geophysical studies into what it calls, ‘обоснования внешней границы континентального шельфа РФ в Северном... Read More...
21 November 2009
I have noted these flights before so might as well continue so радио голос росии reports on the the flight of two strategic bomber Ty-95’s over international waters in the Atlantic and Arctic. That is four flights recorded since September. Риа-новости reports that the flights were over the Aleutian Islands not the Atlantic. Read More →
10 November 2009
Following on from recent posts, the issue of the appropriateness or not of the cold war metaphor continues to reverberate, with Russian opinion directly attacking Roger Howard’s opinions on ‘the new cold war’. РИАНОВОСТИ reported the remarks of Director of the Institute of Geography, Academician Arkady Tishov. He predicts that a new cold war in the Arctic... Read More...
5 November 2009
Many Russian sources address the comments made by a British expert on the problems of the Arctic, who uses the phrase ‘new cold war’ in an interview with РИАНовости. This phrase ‘new cold war’ is often used by journalists in the west searching for a headline but what does it actually mean? It is likely to be the case that the USA and Russia will fight... Read More...
22 October 2009
There are many reports today of the flights of two Tupolev 95ms long range strategic bombers over international waters, somewhere near the boundary between the Pacific and the Arctic oceans, probably ocean near the Aleutian Islands. They are described as practicing flying for long periods without the guidance of landmarks. It would seem that the strategic function of the aircraft is... Read More...
17 October 2009
This report in Ивестия.py raises an awareness of the fundamentals of Russia’s Arctic policy in so far as it relates to the USA. The author argues that, ‘Причем США Конвенцию ООН не ратифицировали – чтобы ничем не стеснять свои притязания’ – i.e., that the reason that the USA has not... Read More...
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