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A new configuration of Russian strategic interests in the Arctic region
The paper considers special consequences the world economic globalization has in the Arctic region where the bloc of northern countries forms a center of advanced and rich post-industrial economies surrounded by a wide periphery including Russia. The creation and development in the XXIst century of an Arctic transport system is an unprecedented global-planetary project. It will create a new arena of collision between geo-strategic interests of circumpolar nations. The point is claims to the shelf and North Pole of the planet made by Russia, Norway, the USA, Canada and Denmark. Russian geo-strategic interests in the Arctic region have to be actively defended. This necessitates development of a new Russian Arctic doctrine.
