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Moscow’s Arctic policy is based on lies and corruption, says Russian energy expert in exile
“It is all fake.” Mikhail Krutikhin vividly describes how state-owned oil company Rosneft is operating along the desolate Russian Arctic coast. Putin has big geopolitical ambitions in the Arctic, but behind the major energy projects in the region is a …