Spitzbergen: A New Hotspot in the Cold North Between Russia and the West

Spitzbergen, the largest and only continually inhabited island of the Svalbard Archipelago, located in the Arctic Ocean, 1,000 kilometers north of Norway, is on its way to becoming a new hotspot in the emerging cold war between the Russian Federation and the West (Nrk.no June 28; Ekho Rossii, June 29). For decades, this Norwegian territory’s legal position has been anything …

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