Russia's Arctic Expansion

President Putin of Russia said that current expansion of interest in the Arctic is mainly for sources of hydrocarbons and metals that are of strategic importance for his country and the world. He also said that the region is protected by a missile defense system that is very hard to penetrate, and could be nuclear armed at the peripheries.

http://aa.com.tr/en/world/russian-president-talks-up-arctic-interest-/784498


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