Mattis concerned as Russia opens first of five Arctic military bases
by WorldTribune Staff, April 19, 2017 Russia has unveiled a 14,000-square-meter (151,000-square-foot) permanent military base in the Arctic, which President Vladimir Putin sees as a key strategic region. The Arctic Trefoil, the second Putin-era base in the Arctic, was built on a huge ice-covered archipelago called Franz Josef Land. The first base to be completed […]