Why Is Russia Bringing the S-400 Air Defense System to Its Bases in the Arctic?

Russia is intensifying its efforts to exert economic and military control over the rapidly warming Arctic region.

But it’s not alone. The United States is staking its own claim on the far north.

The Arctic currently accounts for 15 percent of Russia’s GDP, according to analysts Nataliya Bugayova, Alexander Begej and Darina Regio from the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for the Study of War.

The analysts in their March 26, 2019 report cite a drumbeat of news coming out of Russia.

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