Putin is trying to Annex the North Pole

[katty]

more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=464921&in_page_id=1811

Russian leader Vladimir Putin is trying to Annex the North Pole

Russian leader Vladimir Putin has made an astonishing bid to grab a vast chunk of the Arctic, giving himself claim to its vast potential oil, gas and mineral wealth.

His audacious argument that an underwater Russian ridge is linked to the North Pole is likely to lead to an international outcry.

Some commentators have already observed it is further evidence of growing Russian assertiveness under its authoritarian president.

The Russian media trumpeted the findings of a Moscow scientific mission to the region which boasts "sensational" geological discoveries enabling the Kremlin to make the territorial claim.

[Archae]

1. I smell bullshit...

This "newspaper" has on the front page of it's website lots of sex.

I smell a Murdoch tabloid bullshit story...

[havocmom]

2. Either that or it's about the war on Christmas

The Grinch Putin wants to be the boss of Santa Clause and put the elves in Siberian work camps.

[Dead_Parrot]

3. Here's a BBC article on it, if that helps

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6242736.stm

[tom_paine]

4. Yep, it's real. Bush and Putin are very much alike, as Hitler and Stalin were

Both Bush and Putin seek Big Power. I also think both Bush (the Bush family to be more precise) and Putin will exercise power long after they are out of office, either partially or fully with apparatus and apparatchiks (and moles) left all over, impossible to burrow out of their cubicles and offices.