It is in no one’s interest to militarise the Arctic but thanks to something of an arms race heating up between the US, Russia ...
Russia has long sought to control the Bear Gap. Control of the waterway would give Russian submarines easier access to the Norwegian Sea, where complex acoustic conditions make detection much harder ...
Why does NATO want more control of the Arctic? Because Russia is surpassing it, having one-third more military bases in the Arctic than all NATO members put together.
"Accelerating the economic and infrastructural exploration of the Arctic" was also deemed one of the key priorities MOSCOW, November 22. /TASS/. Russian Presidential Aide and Chairman of the Russian ...
A strategically important stretch of Arctic Ocean, known as the Bear Gap, has become the latest focus of concerns about Russia’s military ambitions in the far north. In an interview with UK’s Times ...