IT is useful that Peter MacKay understands that "this isn't the 14th or 15th century." The foreign affairs minister was commenting on this week's mission to the North Pole by a Russian nuclear powered ice-breaker, which lowered two mini-submarines through a hole in the Arctic ice to plant the Russian flag on the seabed, claiming the territory for Russia.
There are a number of elements of Russian Arctic foreign policy that have raised concerns am...
Assert Canada's Arctic sovereignty by depositing a titanium-encased Maple Leaf flag on the North Pole seabed? Forget it. It's not the Canadian way. Although planned for some weeks, the trip has proved timelier than anyone could have anticipated. It will give [Stephen Harper] the opportunity to counter the Russian government's latest startling bid to assert its sovereignty over a vast, potentially energy-rich stretch of the Arctic by planting a Russian flag -- which was encased in titanium -- on the North Pole seabed.
THE Russian nuclear-powered ice-breaker Rossiya today is forcing its way through the Arctic ice to the North Pole. When it gets there -- it is expected to arrive on Sunday -- it will launch a mini-submarine through a hole in the ice. That sub will descend 4,000 metres to the seabed and plant a Russian flag there. Then it will ascend to the surface and, through the same hole, rejoin the Rossiya -- that's assuming that all goes well. If it misses the exit point on surfacing, there is good chance that all three crew members will die -- Russia does not have an unblemished safety record with its subs -- but they will have made their government's point.
... was part of both the Norwegian and the Russian coastal shelf but has left it to both states to re...At intervals, each state plants its flag on the island, causing the other to launch a diplo...
Moscow claims a large part of the Arctic seabed as its own, arguing that it is an extension of Russia's continental shelf. In 2007, scientists staked a symbolic claim by dropped a canister containing the Russian flag onto the seabed from a small submarine. Artur Chilingarov, a polar scientist who was recently appointed the Kremlin's point man for Arctic issues and led the flag-planting expedition, said in June that Russia might resubmit the claim in 2013 after collecting more data. At the time, Chilingarov said Russia's fleet of six nuclear-powered icebreakers gives it an edge in polar exploration. Russia is the only nation that now has an atomic icebreaker fleet, he said.
I don't want myself to think about falling down in Chicago," [Robert Cheruiyot] said after overcoming a concussion from that slip and the remnants of a nor'easter to win his third Boston title. "When the lion is chasing the antelope, he doesn't look back. He has to eat," Cheruiyot said. "So when I run, I don't stare at my time. Russia's Lidiya Grigoryeva captured the women's crown in 2:29:18, winning by 20 seconds and sending Latvia's Jelena Prokocuka to her second consecutive second-place finish. Grigoryeva, who set the course record in Los Angeles last year, veered to the stands to grab a Russian flag just before crossing the finish line.
...(2) . The Russian flag-planting on the sea bottom beneath the North ...
...(24) In fact, from Bernier's flag planting claims in the Eastern Arctic Archipelago ... of national defence, reacted to the Russian flag planting incident on the Arctic Ocean seabed ...
A year after Russian scientists planted their nation's flag on the North Pole seabed -- a controversial demonstration of their country's interest in securing control over a vast undersea mountain chain stretching across the Arctic Ocean from Siberia to Ellesmere Island and Greenland -- the Canadian researchers have teamed with Danish scientists to offer proof that the Lomonosov Ridge is, in fact, a natural extension of the North American continent. Canada's planned UNCLOS submission includes areas in the Beaufort Sea in the western Arctic, on the Lomonsov Ridge in the east and along another underwater Arctic mountain range in the central Arctic called Alpha Ridge. Our initial look suggests that most of the key elements for a petroleum province may exist on the Lomonosov Ridge," the U.S...
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