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		</div><p>Russia has submitted its bid for vast territories in the Arctic to the United Nations.</p>
<p>It is claiming 1.2 million square kilometres (more than 463,000 square miles) of Arctic sea shelf, the Russian foreign ministry said.</p>
<p>Russia, the US, Canada, Denmark and Norway have all been trying to assert jurisdiction over parts of the Arctic, which is believed to hold up to a quarter of the planet’s undiscovered oil and gas.</p>
<p>Rivalry for Arctic resources has intensified as shrinking polar ice is opening up new opportunities for exploration.</p>
<p>Russia was the first to submit its claim in 2002, but the UN sent it back for lack of evidence. The new bid contains more data.</p>
<p>The ministry said that the resubmitted bid contains new arguments. “Ample scientific data collected in years of Arctic research are used to back the Russian claim,” it said.</p>
<p>Russia expects the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf to start looking at its bid in the fall, the ministry said.</p>
<p>In 2007, Moscow staked a symbolic claim to the Arctic seabed by dropping a canister containing the Russian flag on the ocean floor from a small submarine at the North Pole.</p>
<p>Amid tensions with the West over Ukraine, the Kremlin also has moved to beef up Russian military forces in the Arctic.</p>
<p>The effort has included the restoration of a Soviet-era military base on the New Siberian Islands and other military outposts in the Arctic.</p>
<p>Russian officials said the facilities are key for protecting shipping routes that link Europe with the Pacific region across the Arctic Ocean.</p>
<p>Earlier this year, the military conducted sweeping manoeuvres in the Arctic that involved 38,000 servicemen, more than 50 surface ships and submarines and 110 aircraft.</p>
<p>As part of the drills, the military demonstrated its capability to quickly beef up its forces on the Arctic Novaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land archipelagos.</p>
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