Exhibitions
MOSCOW, August 8 (RIA Novosti) - Studying...
million square kilometers (460,000 square miles) of territory believed to contain vast oil and gas reserves and other mineral riches likely to become accessible in future decades due to man-made global warming. The UN demanded more evidence.Speaking at the news conference, Russia's veteran explorer and lawmaker Artur Chilingarov, who led the mission, described it as a "patriotically-tinted geographical expedition."
As well as collecting geological samples, the explorers planted a titanium Russian flag on the seafloor.
Chilingarov said for him it was "a crazy, incredibly difficult decision to order the descent," and confessed he had left a death note for his family on the Akademik Fedorov research vessel, which brought the mini-submarines to the Pole.
He said that judging by the government's growing interest in the Arctic, Russia would probably step up research in the region.
Russia's Arctic stunt has provoked irritation from Canada,
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