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The Russians have claimed the North Pole. No, this was not a matter of Spetsnaz troops in Arctic camouflage storming Santa's workshop.(The Week)(Brief article)
The Russians have claimed the North Pole. No, this was not a matter of Spetsnaz troops in Arctic camouflage storming Santa's workshop. It was, in fact, entirely symbolic, a Russian minisub planting a titanium flagpole on the sea bed at latitude 90[degrees] 00' 00". Actually establishing a proper legal claim to the Pole will involve years of haggling with dense legal bureaucracies bearing names like the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf and the International Seabed Authority, not to mention other parties (Canada, Norway, the U.S., Denmark) with competing claims. Even the symbolic act was not all it seemed. Footage of the flag-planting ...
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