Russia’s North-Pole Land Grab

Who should own the North Pole? There are international agreements on Antarctica and the Arctic, which says that no country may claim land in the polar areas. Now that is about to change. Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has announced that the Russian Federation will claim and take control of over 460,000 square miles of Arctic land, including the North Pole. The president justifies this claim from the claimed finding by Russian scientists who conducted an expedition there that an underwater shelf called the Lomonosov Ridge begins in Russian territory and extends to the North Pole.

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