Moscow pins Arctic hopes on nuclear icebreaker fleet / V000_9M73DP
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As Arctic ice-cover recedes under the force of climate change, Russia has pinned its hopes for supremacy in the warming region on a fleet of nuclear-powered icebreakers. President Vladimir Putin has made the strategic polar area a priority, as melting ice opens up new shipping routes across the Far North. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES