Arctic: The Next U.S., Russian Flashpoint

Arctic: The Next U.S., Russian Flashpoint

A U.N. commission had recognized the maritime territory as part of Russia's continental shelf, Russia's minister of natural resources and environment proudly announced, and the decision would only advance the territorial claims in the Arctic that Russia had pending before the same committee. After a decade and a half of painstaking petitioning, the Peanut Hole was Russia's.

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