Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. One excellent examination of Arctic politics is Charles Emmerson, The Future History of the Arctic. The Bodley Head, London, 2010. 2. He also promised to undertake a massive environmental cleansing of the Russian settlements in such unique ecosystems as the Franz Josef Land or Novaya Zemlya, which is yet to happen; see Christoph Seidler, ‘Spring Cleaning in the Arctic: Putin's Environmental Action Plan for the Far North’, Der Spiegel, September 24, 2010. 3. The discontinuation of the project made remarkably subdued political impression; see Vladimir Milov, ‘It is Wrong to Abandon Shtokman’, Forbes.ru (in Russian), August 31, 2012, at http://www.forbes.ru/sobytiya-column/kompanii/108894-brosat-razrabotku-shtokmana-nelzya (Accessed June 13, 2013). 4. See on that Charles Emmerson, ‘Arctic Ending?’, Chatham House Expert Comment, March 1, 2013, at http://www.chathamhouse.org/media/comment/view/189713 (Accessed June 13, 2013). 5. See Nina Pussenkova, ‘The Problems of Producing the “Black Gold” in the North’, NG-Energiya, November 13, 2012 (in Russian), at http://www.ng.ru/ng_energiya/2012-11-13/11_oil.html (Accessed June 13, 2013). 6. One useful examination of this imbalance is Michael Roi, ‘Russia: The Greatest Arctic Power?’, The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 23(4), 2010, pp. 551–575. 7. This accident in the last day of 2011 is accurately described in greater detail than the authorities provided in Mikhail Lukin and Ivan Safronov Jr., ‘Burned Submarine’, Kommersant-Vlast, February 13, 2012, at http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1867264 (Accessed June 13, 2013). 8. Official translation of his remarks at the meeting of the Maritime Collegium on December 4, 2012, is provided by RIA-Novosti, see http://en.ria.ru/russia/20121204/177915726.html (Accessed June 13, 2013). 9. One elaborate presentation of the Russian view is Aleksei Fenenko, ‘Russia and the Competition for the Re-division of Polar Spaces’, MEiMO, (4), April 2011, pp. 16–29 (in Russian). 10. Attentive analysis of this course can be found in Ingmar Oldberg, ‘Soft Security in the Arctic: The Role of Russia in the Barents Euro–Arctic Region and the Arctic Council’, Occasional Paper 4, Stockholm, UI, 2011. 11. On the post-factum irritation about President Medvedev's concession in many political circles in Russia, see Aleksei Plotnikov, ‘On the Diplomacy of Compromises—Again’, Russia in Global Affairs (in Russian), December 11, 2012, at http://www.globalaffairs.ru/book/Esche-raz--o-diplomatii-ustupok-15770 (Accessed June 13, 2013). 12. See on this must-do issue Thad W. Allen, Richard L. Armitage and John J. Hamre, ‘Odd Man Out At Sea’, New York Times, April 24, 2011. 13. See on this prospect Einar Benediktsson and Thomas R. Pickering, ‘China Knocks on Iceland's Door’, New York Times, March 12, 2013. 14. See Sergei Kulikov, ‘China Penetrates into Russia's Arctic Possessions’, Nezavisimaya gazeta, March 19, 2013 (in Russian). 15. This author touched upon this tendency in Pavel K. Baev, ‘Russia's History is Too Tragic and Its Society Too Complex to Fit into Putin's Worldview’, Eurasia Daily Monitor, March 20, 2013.