Russia’s current Antarctic policy

Abstract

Beginning and development of the USSR practical and scientific activity in the Antarctic and participation of the USSR and its legal continuer – the Russian Federation (RF) in the work of different bodies of the Antarctic Treaty System are considered. Particular attention is given to an assessment of the role of the RF Government in current issues of the national Antarctic policy and the existing differences with some of the Consultative Parties to the Antarctic Treaty in this sphere.

Keywords:

• antarctic policy
• USSR
• Russian Federation
• history
• Antarctic Treaty System
• strategy of development
• decrees of the Government
• Marine Protected Areas

Notes

¹ Slevich, The Ice Continent Today and Tomorrow (Leningrad: Gidrometeoizdat, 1968), 287.

² Ermolaev and Dibner, Mikhail Mikhailovich Ermolaev. The Life of a Researcher and Scientist (St. Petersburg: Russian Geographical Society (RGS), Epigraph, 2005); Buinitsky, The Main Results and Prospects for the Scientific Research Work of the Arctic Institute. Papers of the Jubilee Session 1920-XXVMT - 1945. (Moscow: Glavsermorput, 1945), 15.

³ Lukin et al., Soviet and Russian Antarctic Expeditions in Numbers and Facts (1955–2005) (St. Petersburg: AARI, 2006), 455.

⁴ Lukin et al., The Antarctic Treaty System. Legal Acts Commentaries (St. Petersburg: Gidrometeoizdat, 2002), 400.

⁵ Ibid.

⁶ Slevich, The Ice Continent Today and Tomorrow (Leningrad: Gidrometeoizdat, 1968), 287.

⁷ Miller, Political Rights in the Arctic, Foreign Affairs (1925), 47–67.

⁸ Lukin, Contemporary Challenges and Threats in the International Community to the Antarctic Treaty System. Maritime Geopolitics in a Twenty-first Century Context. Collection of scientific paper. (St. Petersburg: RGS, 2013), 161–7.

⁹ Lukin, Hot Days in Cold Brussels. Russian Polar Research. Information-Analytical Collection No. 2 (12) (St. Petersburg: AARI, 2013), 35–37.

¹⁰ Lukin, Reasons for the Unsuccessful Attempt to Create Marine Protected Areas in the Antarctic. Russian Polar Research, Information-Analytical Collection No. 3. (13) (St. Petersburg: AARI, 2013), 39–43.