Putin's Arctic invasion: Russia lays claim to the North Pole - and all its gas, oil, and diamonds

[babylonsister]

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Putin's Arctic invasion: Russia lays claim to the North Pole - and all its gas, oil, and diamonds
Last updated at 20:19pm on 28th June 2007


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.

Populist newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda - a cheerleader for Putin - printed a map of the North Pole showing a "new addition" to Russia, a triangle five times the size of Britain with twice as much oil as Saudi Arabia.

The six-week mission on a nuclear ice-breaker claimed that the underwater Lomonsov ridge is geologically linked to the Siberian continental platform - and similar in structure.


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[Bonhomme Richard]

1. Brings to mind Ice Station Zebra. n/t

[NI4NI]

2. At least he didn't attack,

and invade a sovreign nation, or bomb and kill innocent men, women and children for oil. (Sarcasm)

[shain from kane]

3. Those are icicles, not diamonds.

[azndndude]

4. Sounds familar? We had the same thing happen here in America!

Nothing new, another European claiming land that isn't his. From an Indigenous person of the Western Hemisphere. (the politically correct way to address a Native American Indian)