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Russia Is Quietly Building a New Arctic Military Base—on American Land

For more than 100 years, Russia has illegally occupied Wrangel Island, an American-claimed island in the Arctic—and has now fortified it with a military base. Wrangel Island, a remote Arctic gem in ...
Yahoo

Putin claims Russia and US are discussing cooperation in Arctic and Alaska

Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is discussing with the United States the possibility of cooperation in the Arctic and in Alaska. Source: Putin at a meeting with nuclear industry ...
Reuters

Putin sees 'light at end of the tunnel' in Russia-US ties, cooperation in Arctic and Alaska

MOSCOW, Aug 22 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that there was "light at the end of the tunnel" in Russia-U.S. relations and that the two countries were discussing joint projects in ...
Bloomberg L.P.

High in the Arctic, Norway’s Uneasy Ties With Russia Are Fraying

On a wind-blasted plateau high above the most northerly town on Earth, arrays of white spherical domes stand like sentinels in the Arctic snow. Hidden from casual observers below in Longyearbyen, the ...
The National Interest

Russia Is Quietly Building a New Arctic Military Base—on American Land

For more than 100 years, Russia has illegally occupied Wrangel Island, an American-claimed island in the Arctic—and has now fortified it with a military base. As Russia’s militarization of the Arctic ...