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VOA Chinese, May 15, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110515_Russia_Arctic_Issues-121853729.html

Note: 北极搜救协定 Arctic Search and Rescue Agreement (see (2) below)

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* Arctic Council
http://www.arctic-council.org/

News in chrological order (That is about it):

(1) Russian foreign minister going to Greenland for Arctic Council meeting.RIA Novosti, May 12, 2011
http://en.rian.ru/world/20110512/163983566.html
("The Council was set up in 1996 in Ottawa")

Note: Faroe Islands
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroe_Islands
(approximately halfway between Great Britain and Iceland; The Faroe Islands have been an autonomous province of the Kingdom of Denmark since 1948)

(2) Lachlan Carmichael, States set rules on exploiting Arctic wealth. AFP, May 12, 2011.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110512/sc_afp/arctictalks_20110512183150
("Russian deputy foreign minister Vladimir Titov told the RIA Novosti news agency the agreement 'will be the first pan-Arctic document in history'")

My comment: I can not find that RIA Novosti report.

(3) Joe Ralston, From Sea to Shining Sea to Arctic Ocean; Sovereignty issues and energy opportunities can no longer be ignored. Washington Times, May 13, 2011.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/13/from-sea-to-shining-sea-to-arctic-ocean/

Quote:

"Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s recent visit to Greenland on May 12 confirmed that realization. She became the first U.S. secretary of state to attend the Arctic Council.

"The U.S.-Russia border through the Bering Sea, Chukchi Sea and Arctic Ocean remains unratified by Russia’s Duma.

Note:
(a) Chukchi Sea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chukchi_Sea
(The Bering Strait forms its southernmost limit and connects it to the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean; The sea is named after the Chukchi people, who reside on its shores and on the Chukotka[/Chukchi] Peninsula)
(b) Prudhoe Bay, Alaska
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudhoe_Bay,_Alaska
(named in 1826 by British explorer Sir John Franklin after his classmate Captain Algernon Percy, Baron Prudhoe; a map illustrates Trans-Alaska pipeline)

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