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Article: As ice caps melt, Russia stakes its claim to oil-rich Arctic.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- August 3, 2007
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Byline: Fred Weir Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
MOSCOW -- It's an achievement comparable to landing on the moon, Russian commentators insist.
Four Russian and two foreign explorers aboard a pair of deep-sea submersibles made an unprecedented journey Thursday to probe the remote seabed beneath the North Pole.
To symbolize Moscow's claim to the polar territory and all its resources, they planted a tricolor Russian flag made of titanium in the "yellow muck" nearly three miles down, before returning safely to the small fleet of research ships on the icebound surface.
"The landing was smooth, the yellowish mud is around us, ...