This story appears in the May 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The office of Artur Chilingarov, the bearded polar explorer and anointed Hero of the Russian Federation, is at the end of ...
It connects to the Arctic Ocean through the Bering Strait ... operate within and near other countries’ Economic Exclusion Zones from their own home waters,” he said. Beijing has for years ...
He said it was clear that the US would continue to promote its interests in the Arctic. Read more at straitstimes.com.