MOSCOW, May 27 (RIA Novosti) - A leading...
Dmitry Medvedev said in September at a Russian Security Council session that the extent of the Russian continental shelf in the Arctic should be defined as soon as possible.Russia has undertaken two Arctic expeditions - to the Mendeleyev underwater chain in 2005 and to the Lomonosov ridge in the summer of 2007 - to support its territorial claims in the region. Moscow has pledged to submit documentary evidence to the UN on the external boundaries of Russia"s territorial shelf by 2010.
The Russia-NATO Council meets on Wednesday in Brussels for the second time since the end of last August"s war between Russia and Georgia over Abkhazia. The work of the Council was suspended by the alliance unilaterally in September 2008,
Relations had looked to be recovering, but took another hit earlier this month with the expulsion of two Russian NATO diplomats from Brussels. Russia responded by expelling two NATO officials from Moscow and pulling out of a NATO-Russia
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