More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Moscow has built more than 475 military bases along its northern border.

Map of Arctic routes. NOAA Image. Russia’s military presence in the Arctic peaked during the Soviet era and new increases to defense spending have expanded operations in the region, though it ...

Four Arctic experts say it would take the West at least 10 years to catch up with Russia’s military in the region, if it chose to do so. “The Arctic is currently a dark area on the map ...

Today the Arctic is still a site of peril and promise. A new race to the North Pole is under way, as politicians dream of ...

In a further sign of its intent, the Kremlin announced that four strategic bombers were to make training flights over the Arctic and the Atlantic Ocean. Rival expeditions. Russia's claim to a vast ...

As competition for resources in the Arctic Ocean intensifies, nations are staking claims to swaths of undersea territory where oil, gas, and other minerals could someday be found and mined. The ...

If the CLCS agrees with it, Russia’s continental shelf in the Central Arctic Ocean would seem to consist of 516,400 square nautical miles (684,000 square miles) — an area larger than Libya ...

China’s Coast Guard claimed it entered waters of the Arctic Ocean for the first time as part of a joint patrol with Russia – in the latest sign of enhanced coordination between the two in a ...

No country owns the geographic North Pole or the Arctic Ocean surrounding it. The eight Arctic states which include Russia, the U.S. and Canada, are limited to a 200 nautical mile Exclusive ...