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...North Pole isn't the only prize in the eyes of the resurgent Russian empire - Moscow is also looking to restore control over a 47,000 sq. km (18,000 sq. mile) piece of the Bering Sea separating Alaska from Russian Chukotka. The territory was ceded to the U.S. in 1990 under the U.S.-Soviet Maritime Boundary Agreement signed by Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. While the deal may have helped ease Cold War tensions, anti-reform Soviet hard-liners always opposed giving up a piece of territory rich in sea life and hydrocarbon...
...tale of two tycoons, and it tells you everything about the state of Russia today. Earlier this year, Roman Abramovich, the Russian oil magnate and Governor of the desolate Arctic region of Chukotka, was worth an estimated $5.7 billion - second only to Yukos oil baron Mikhail Khodorkovsky's $8 billion. Both men leapt from rags to riches in the giddy, shady privatization era of the early 1990s - and their companies agreed to merge last April - but their lives have since diverged. Khodorkovsky, 40, is now in jail, charged with embezzlement and tax evasion in what many call a politically motivated...
Soviet ships had been calling at U.S. ports ever since V-J Day, and nobody but customs officials and longshoremen had paid much attention to them. But last week, when the 10,000-ton Soviet steamship Chukotka tied up at a Jersey City pier and began loading $282,000 worth of industrial machinery (which had been licensed for export by the Department of Commerce), all hell broke loose...
...line of Catholic war veterans appeared at the Chukotka's pier, began picketing her on grounds that her cargo could be used against the U.S. in time of war. Longshoremen decided to join the protest, held a token strike for six hours. Within 24 hours the Chukotka case had made Page One of most newspapers, was being hotly discussed in Congress...
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