Vladimir Putin visits Arctic to affirm Russia's claim

Touring oil-rich north region, Russian leader concerns the protection of his country's economic and security interests.Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited a region within the archipelago as a part of Russia's efforts to affirm its foothold within the oil-rich region.On a tour on the Franz Josef Land solid ground, a sprawling assortment of islands wherever the Russian military has recently designed a replacement runway and worked to open a permanent base, statesman emphasized on weekday the necessity to shield Russia's economic and security interests within the Arctic.

Natural resources, that square measure of predominate importance for the Russian economy, square measure focused during this region," statesman same in remarks carried by Russian news agencies
.Putin aforesaid current estimates place the worth of the Arctic's mineral material resource
at $30 trillion.Russia, the us, Canada, Scandinavian nation and Scandinavian country have all been attempting to say jurisdiction over elements of the Arctic as shrinking polar ice creates new opportunities for exploration.Accompanied by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev
and Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu, he visited the cave of the Arctic Pilots ice mass and spoke with Russian troops.

The Kremlin has named reaffirming the Russian presence within the Arctic as a high priority amid AN enhancive competition over the region that's believed to carry up to 1 / 4 of the planet's undiscovered oil and gas.In 2015, Russia submitted a revised bid for huge territories within the Arctic to the global organization, claiming 1.2 million sq.kilometres of Arctic ocean shelf extending over 650km from the shore.

Putin aforesaid on weekday that Russia has remained receptive a "broad partnership with alternative nations to hold out reciprocally useful comes in sound natural resources, developing world transport
corridors and additionally in science and atmosphere protection"

He additionally underlined the requirement for the military and security agencies to "implement their plans to safeguard national interests,our defence capability, and protection of our interests within the Arctic".
Over the past few years, the Russian military has been conducting a pricey effort to revive and modernise abandoned Soviet-era outposts within the Arctic by reconstruction recent air bases and deploying new air defence assets within the region.

During the visit, statesman inspected a cavity in an exceedingly ice mass that scientists use to check ground. He additionally spoke with environmental consultants WHO have worked to scrub the world of Soviet-era rubble.

Natural Resources Minister Sergey Donskoi reportable to statesman that the clean-up effort had seen the removal of forty two,000 metric tonnes of waste from the solid ground, most of it rusty metal oil canisters left behind by the Soviet military.