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Russia to present Arctic bid in 2009

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Russia prepares to present an application to the U.N. Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf when it next convenes in 2009, Russian law maker and Arctic explorer Artur Chilingarov said last week. The bid includes control over a 1,2 million square kilometres part of the Arctic shelf

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Mr. Chilingarov said that the documented evidence to support Russia’s right to extend its northern boarders would rely on evidence from an expedition by a team of Russian scientists in 2007, the Moscow News reports. -Taking into account the result of the 2007 expedition, we are preparing to submit an application by 2009, Chilingarov told a press conference on Tuesday.