Posted Friday, 29 Aug 2014 by Pavel K. Baev
As Russian tanks roll into Ukraine, President Putin promised to act according to the in the Arctic. In the same breath, however, he reminded that US strike submarines are concentrated 鈥溾 and their missiles could reach Moscow in 15-16 minutes. The commitment to upgrading the military infrastructure in the High North is executed with great haste, so that on the Wrangel island a new church is erected in the center of. The one-sided arms race makes an odd background for the idea of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov 鈥 of the military rhetoric鈥. Lavrov was taking argument with Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird, who said in Copenhagen that Canada was ready to defend its sovereignty in the Arctic against Russian encroachments 鈥 and did not miss that point. Baird is definitely on target 鈥 the brazen intervention in Ukraine proves that international law means nothing for the Kremlin, and its commitment to cooperation in the Arctic is good only insofar as it finds it more profitable than a continuation of policy by other means.