Russian Military Strategies in the Arctic by HEININEN, Lassi, SERGUNIN, Alexander, YAROVOY, Gleb
“Russia’s Arctic military strategy is a vexed question both in the media and in the expert community. Since the planting of a titanium Russian flag at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean on the North Pole in August 2007, resumption of strategic bomber patrols in the High North and the publication of the Russian Arctic strategy of 2008, Western experts have often described Russia’s Arctic policies as expansionist, aggressive and even jingoistic, or as return to “gunboat diplomacy.” According to some Western and East Asian analysts, because of its economic weakness and technological backwardness Russia tends to emphasize military-coercive instruments to protect its national interests in the Arctic, and this will inevitably lead to the arms race in the region, remilitarization and military conflicts in the High North.”
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