Lost in the Christmas rush, America quietly expanded its claim to the Arctic seabed by an extra 200,000 square miles, an area twice the size of California. Russians, who celebrate Christmas next Sunday, did not miss Washington’s move. They denounced it as a “seizure.”
The vice speaker of the Federation Council, Konstantin Kosachev, objects on his Telegram channel: “Today, the Americans act without any international legal basis at all, which means the international community has every right not to recognize new borders.”
