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Russia to file Arctic claim to U.N. this year: radio

news.yahoo.com — Russia will file a claim to the gigantic mineral wealth of the Arctic seabed with the United Nations by the end of the year, Russia's natural resources minister said on Tuesday.

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  • HollowMarkeD, on 11/01/2007, -5/+23Aren't we lucky that global warming has melted the ice caps enough we can exploit the Arctic for oil. :-/
  • trovoltex, on 11/01/2007, -16/+3Those crafty Russians, those barbarians... While civilized countries in violation of international law protecting their interests with high tech weaponry and humanitarian bombardments, while taking assets of other countries, Russians doing crazy things: using international law they are planting flags underwater to secure huge amount of energy resources. Russians are uncivilized, because everyone civilized know that international law are not working! Are they?
    • sotopheavy, on 10/31/2007, -1/+18I'm planting flags under your mom
    • billib, on 10/31/2007, -2/+6I know, those bastards, they should have never gave up their goal of conquering the middle east for its oil.
  • Lane, on 11/01/2007, -2/+21Sigh the cold war's back on.
    • SuperWinner, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1Message from Canada: Oh no you Di'unt!
  • GuacamoleSan, on 11/01/2007, -2/+8@ Lane,
    Everybody Dance Now! *queue music*
  • DeviantDragon, on 10/31/2007, -10/+5Let's get this over with right now folks: In Soviet Russia, Arctic mineral wealth files claim on you!
  • ZeroOrDie, on 10/31/2007, -11/+4In Soviet Antarctica, land conquers you!
    • Gndoab, on 10/31/2007, -2/+2artic...as in artic ocean...NOT as in Antartica....


      two completely different things buddy
      • diggdallas, on 10/31/2007, -0/+4Well now who looks like the idiot?
      • TruthKid, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1Actually it's Arctic as in Arctic Ocean, not artic as in I failed geography
    • flamingmb, on 10/31/2007, -3/+5Shut the ***** up zero. Its getting old with that russia *****.
  • masterm1nd, on 11/02/2007, -3/+8Great, now they own the north pole and the moon.
    http://ff.org/centers/csspp/library/co2weekly/2006 ... .
    • TheDHC, on 10/31/2007, -3/+1they are decades from even putting people beyond low earth orbit. lunar mines seem dodgy at this point
  • expert01, on 10/31/2007, -1/+4Still don't get the radio reference in the title
    • masterm1nd, on 10/31/2007, -2/+9Didn't even notice it. I think I've built up an immunity to stupid titles.
  • HeavyWave, on 10/31/2007, -5/+4Ministers always talk ***** in Russia. It's not about claming something, except that the right to go there for research purposes. They are NOT claming actual land.
  • mikezerobot, on 11/01/2007, -1/+22Canada is already stepping up dog-sled production for this inevitable arctic showdown.
    • effedup, on 11/01/2007, -2/+2Douchebag, the largest dog-sled race in the world is held in your worthless country. I think you have your stereotypes confused.
    • BESTenemy, on 11/01/2007, -0/+2Add bullet-proof iglu construction, trained suicide beaver army, hockey stick cavalry and puck artillery.
  • da_bradler, on 11/01/2007, -4/+17"SUCK IT RUSSIA! look at a map"
    from: Canada
    • ruspecnaz, on 10/31/2007, -1/+15As Russian living in Canada - we alredaay here, waiting for the signal ;-]
      • mikezerobot, on 10/31/2007, -9/+1A signal made of polonium?

        By all means, return to Russia.
  • moosepile, on 11/01/2007, -1/+13As a patriotic Canuck, who still thinks our govt. needs to grow a pair and do something here, I really hope the Cdn Govt doesn't just stand by, or take one up the backdoor from the Dutch either. Grow some, Stephen. Pull some of those troops from Afghanistan and put them up north.

    You don't think this is also Russia's first salvo in regaining superpower status? Really? Come on, look at what they've been pullng lately, and it all reeks of cold war propeganda stuph.

    Only a team of geologists can truly decide who has claim on that bench. Don't let the first team with a flag take it.
    • Jorin, on 10/31/2007, -0/+0I think the government will do its utmost to ensure that these resources remain ours to proudly squander to the US. I'm sure the NAFTA floodgate will remain open, and as more arctic ice melts the weath will keep flowing freely south!
    • tmbrwolf19, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1I agree with you, and I don't.
      Canada is part of a international treaty to decide ownership of arctic waters, have been since the 90s (along with Russia, Denmark, and the others except for the US which has yet to sign). We have a deadline on this to submit our research to make a claim, however its getting close, and no one is doing anything about it. Harper has talked about the Canadian Military obtaining icebreakers, but what is needed is oceanographic research. Unfortunately, Harper seems to fear science so I don't know if thats ever going to happen. Whats worse, he has pissed off our greatest asset to Northern Sovereignty by completely ignoring the Inuit peoples who have lived their for 1000s of years. When the American's tried to claim international waters with the Manhattan in the 70s, it was an Inuit who walked out onto the ice in front of the ship and asked them to request permission (which they did). I should also point out that Canada was the first one to pull off the flag stunt in the 80s when we sent divers down below the ice where they kinda inversely planted a Canadian flag under the pole. Unfortunately it seems that the Conservative party is mostly talk when it comes down to anything but trashing the Liberals, so I dunno if any real action is going to be taken.
  • Truedream, on 11/01/2007, -3/+2damn we peaceful Canadians are gonna be stuck between US and Russia. All we've are 4 subs, 3 destroyers and rest are just the icebreakers. we don't even have enough tanks/soldiers and Russians are here already :(

    *starts predicting when will US have 51 states. by 2050....?*

    seriously I think we should've developed nukes too!!!
    • CanPanther, on 11/01/2007, -3/+3I'm guessing you haven't heard of the North American Union yet...make it 52 states, Canada & Mexico by 2010/2011
    • TruthKid, on 11/01/2007, -2/+2If Canada developed nukes, then the US would have to place sanctions on you
    • Jorin, on 11/01/2007, -0/+2But we have an army of the single greatest threat to America: Bears. Bears will prove to be the saviour of this country.

      Polar, Kodiak, Grizzly, Black! Pick a bear, any bear. We've got it in spades up here.
  • mclumber1, on 11/01/2007, -2/+2America better start laying claim to the regions off of Alaska before Russia or Canada do. It's a good ol' fassioned land grab!
    • yingjai, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1It's more likely that we Canadians claim part of the Arctic and sell it off to you Americans than any of you "laying claim to the regions off of Alaska."
  • arjie, on 10/31/2007, -4/+1They're going to mine the Arctic? I don't think that sounds like the smartest idea.
  • marcus1060, on 11/01/2007, -0/+8They'll have to get through me first.
    Me and a couple friends are going up there to protect Canadian sovereignty!
    • yingjai, on 11/01/2007, -0/+3hey can i join?
    • ZenMojo, on 11/01/2007, -0/+7Bring the beers and I'll come with. I'm American, but we can be a Coalition of the Swilling.
  • ultralights, on 11/01/2007, -0/+8so, by their logic, Australia owns the entire Indian ocean and half the pacific! Whoohoo, we are the biggest nation on earth! go Oz!
    • johnkelsen, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1I like where your heads at, but I'm thinking Antarctica. You bring a whaling spear and I'll bring my baby seal club.
  • MrSteamTank, on 11/03/2007, -0/+4Oddly enough Canada is 13th in the world when it comes to overall military expenditure. With some spending of our current big budget surplus'(around 10-15 billion maybe even more) we could easily double our army size and jump to 7th place. Personally I'd like to see Canada put a few billion into more naval presence in the North so they aren't the push overs they portray themselves as now. 8P
  • solid12345, on 10/31/2007, -0/+0America should claim the moon, afterall it is our flag up there.
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