/ world today news/ Nikolay Kharitonov, chairman of the Arctic Committee of the State Duma (lower house of the Russian Parliament), said yesterday that the US approach to expanding its territory in the Arctic is unacceptable and may lead to an increase in tensions in the region . This is reported by the Russian news agency “Sputnik”.
On November 19, the US State Department issued a statement announcing the expansion of its sovereignty over the Arctic Outer Continental Shelf and the Bering Sea, comprising nearly 1 million square kilometers of land.
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