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Uncompromising about Arctic

A leakage from Russia’s National Security strategy document reveals an uncompromising tone about the Arctic. “It cannot be ruled out that the battle for raw materials will be waged with military means,” the explosive document reads, according to a comprehensive analytical article in the German Magazine Der Spiegel on Thursday.

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In the beginning of January BarentsObserver.com presented the first information from Russia’s Security Council on the country’s new national security plan, which highlights the Arctic.

The document with the entire plan will be presented in the first days of February.

Despite Der Spiegel’s approach with presenting the plan as “the explosive document “ there are also more pragmatic words to read in the document to come.

In its early January article BarentsObserver.com quoted the following from the same document’s pre-presentation: “a pragmatic foreign policy, [and] without engaging in expensive confrontation, including a new arms race.”