Russia’s Arctic coast is greater than 15,000 miles lengthy however the overwhelming majority of it’s off-limits.
It’s a part of a extremely militarised "border security zone" the place entry is forbidden with out particular permission.
In the previous twenty years, Russia has reopened and modernised greater than 50 mothballed, Soviet-era navy posts alongside its frozen frontier.
It’s increasing its icebreaker fleet (which is already the world’s largest and most superior) and, final October, Moscow test-fired a nuclear-powered cruise missile from its Novaya Zemlya archipelago. All this has made NATO nervous and it’s why Donald Trump says the US wants Greenland.
Sky’s Moscow correspondent Ivor Bennett reviews.
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