Russia remains on Shpitsbergen

Annotation

The article considers the perspectives of the expanding of the national social-economic activities on the archipelago by the decisions of the government committee on the Russian presence on Shpitsbergen (December 2011).

About authors

Portsel Alexander Konstantinovich, Ph. D. in History, Associate Professor of Murmansk State Technical University. Contact phone: +7 921 28 946 38. E-mail: portsel@inbox.ru.

Keywords

Shpitsbergen, Barentsburg, Arctic coal, the strategy of Russian presence on Shpitsbergen

DOI

UDC

338(481-922.1)