Russia is flexing its muscles as climate change opens up new possibilities in the north
stretches roughly 9,900 miles around the Earth. It is the line north of which there is at least one day each year of total darkness and one of total light. Eight countries have territory within it: America , Canada, Denmark , Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia and Sweden.
In May Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, claimed that his country controls the Arctic. “It has been absolutely clear for everyone for a long time that this is our territory,” he said. Russian land makes up 53% of the Arctic coastline. Russia has also ramped up its military investment in the region: since 2007 at least 50 Soviet-era military outposts have reopened. But the other Arctic states see things differently.
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