'Newsweek' reports that Russia is planning to continue expanding into the Arctic amid what Moscow perceives as growing Western threats in the region. While no country can lay claim to the geographic North Pole or the Arctic Ocean, the territory is divided into eight Arctic states. These territories are limited to a 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). In 2001, Russia made its first bid to expand its Arctic territory, but the push was rejected by the United Nation's Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.
