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Widely publicized Murmansk initiatives put forward by Mikhail Gorbachev in October 1987 have marked not only the beginning of the review process in the traditional Soviet Arctic policies, but a new understanding of the national security concept as well. In the course of the final years of the USSR existence these proposals, however, have been implemented only to a limited extent, and current perspectives of the new Russian policy in the Arctic still remain ambiguous.
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Vartanov, R., Roginko, A., Kolossov, V. (1999). Russian Security Policy 1945–96: The Role of the Arctic, the Environment and the NSR. In: Østreng, W. (eds) National Security and International Environmental Cooperation in the Arctic — the Case of the Northern Sea Route. Environment & Policy, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4760-6_3
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