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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia says it must stake claim to Arctic resources
2008-09-13
Feeling their oats, are they ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia must stake its claim to a slice of the Arctic's vast resources, the secretary of Russia's Security Council said on Friday at an unprecedented session of the council held on a desolate Arctic island. Underlining Russia's claims to the region, Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev assembled the defence and interior ministers and the speakers of both houses of parliament for the meeting on the Arctic island, Russian news agencies reported.

Russia, the world's biggest country, says a whole swathe of the Arctic seabed should belong to it because the area is really an extension of the Siberian continental shelf.

"The Arctic must become Russia's main strategic resource base," Russian news agencies quoted Patrushev as saying. The Council usually meets only in Moscow.
Posted by:Steve White

#8  Somehow I get the gut feeling Russia is scared shitless by the Chinese.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2008-09-13 19:50  

#7  Yep, NS. Russia has been invaded many time. The one from the East [Mongol-Yuan] was successful in occupying and ruling the land of the Rus for centuries.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2008-09-13 16:35  

#6  "The Arctic must become Russia's main strategic resource base,"

That retreat into Mother Russia thing worked for Kutuzov and Stalin, but I'm not so sure it's the strategy to use on the Chinese.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2008-09-13 14:11  

#5  36e5

Dun make me go back thar
Posted by: John Drake   2008-09-13 13:49  

#4  Patrushev: "We Russians only want this area where we believe the oilfield extends from Siberia. You Canadians and Americans can have what's left."
Posted by: Woozle Elmeter 2700   2008-09-13 13:44  

#3  Now you're screwing around in Sarah territory, Vlad. You must be feeling lucky, right punk?
Posted by: Jack is Back!   2008-09-13 12:51  

#2  Greedy bastards, welcome back to 1980.
Posted by: newc   2008-09-13 05:49  

#1  By VARIOUS NET SOURCES > the RUSSO-GEORGIAN CONFLICT was FINANCIALLY, MATERIELLY [Military] + ECON COSTLY FOR RUSSIA, which is reportedly STRUGGLING TO RECOVER???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-09-13 01:36  

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