Russia is planning to create a crack group of special military forces to help carve out and patrol the Arctic, which it claims is its territory.
The area will be controlled by Russia’s shadowy secret service, the FSB – the successor organisation to the KGB.
A new document released by the Presidential Security Council lays bare Russia’s aggressive military intentions for the disputed region.
The country’s military elite have stated in the past how they are prepared to fight wars in the Arctic as the scramble for natural resources in the region heats up.
Russia launched an expedition to the Arctic in August 2007.
A team of scientists on board an atomic icebreaker placed a Russian tricolour on the seabed making a symbolic land grab.
March 27th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Sky news filth… Doesn’t even deserve a more than a spit on the Sky News logo…
Think! Reply:
March 28th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THE NEWS YOU WATCH OR HEAR IS ANY BETTER? FOOL!
Artyom Reply:
March 29th, 2009 at 12:22 am
What makes you think my distaste for Murdock means I believe all news I read? It seems you are a fool for judging someone you don’t know. There are many articles written on this exact story and this one is most extreme, as always. My country has always had interest in arctic, as we have the most ice breakers in the world to get there.
March 27th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
“Olympius Inferno”. Action Movie about Georgia-S.Ossetia War:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ADAi_gRJNM
March 28th, 2009 at 2:16 am
So what—why is amerika sticking it’s nose in this too? Doesn’t amerika have enough filthy things to clean up in filthy amerika?
March 28th, 2009 at 10:36 am
With the global cooling gong on, they wont be able to dig-out any minerals below the thickening ice crust. Bad call.
March 28th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
So is Russia going to keep a check on N.A.T.O and U.S expansionism in Central Asia and the Arctic, (perhaps giving the rest of the world some breathing space)? Clearly the stakes are including expanding boundaries over the sea floor and even claims in controlling outer space!
March 28th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
I LEFT A REPLY ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON… BUT IT WAS REMOVED!!
March 28th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
hey atleast russia did it without fabricating a war!!!