Are Rosneft mad? Exxon still haven't cleaned up their previous messes around the world and you are letting these misfits lose in the Artic.

Get ready for another disaster because these guys can't help themselves and are totally out of control. I hope Rosneft has a lot of money saved, they are going to need it when the time comes.

@Babs & sms. Russia is NOT anything close to a Superpower! They are a wanna-be who still copy U.S. tecnology to try and keep up, but remain firmly entrenched in their place at the technological feet of the U.S. They are what they have been even in the Soviet days - 20 years behind the West. By the time they copy our designs (F-15, F-22, Buran, IL-38, etc.) we are already far into deploying our next generation of military technology. Oh - in space? Russia could have NEVER done the Mars Curiosity Sky-Crane Rover. Like their Proton rocket, or Phobos-Grunt, they would have utterly FAILED! We take a ride on your old Souz to keep you further behind while we build new modern rockets. YES! ... We are tricking you!!!

Russia will never be a Superpower again. Russia makes nothing that the world wants, nor do they invent new technology. Who buys anything Russian? NO ONE! No Boeing, Intel, Microsoft, Ford, GE, HP, Cisco, Network Appliance, Apple, Catapillar, J&J, Pfizer, Merck, #m, Evinrude, United Technologies - NOTHING! Russia only has oil, and as I stated before, OUR OIL 200 miles off the Alaskan shore will be defended.

If Russia thinks they will bully us in the Artic like China bullies it's neighbors in the South China Sea, they are going to be in for a surprise. They will be SLAPPED DOWN quickly and hard by our superior Superpower military forces! No - Russia is at best a nuclear-armed Second-World nation. Stop deluding yourselves! Thje whole world knows the truth. You are weak, and all of Putin's antics will not change that FACT! Neither will your slow and technologically weak military build-up! If you cannot wake yourselves up from your delusions of grandure, we will do it for you with a quick military boot in your beehinds! You cannot stop the U.S. anywhere in the world, but we can defeat you ANYWHERE! Space, air, land, sea, and underwater. All of the Earth is under our military control  and protectiion - ESPECIALLY in our seas in the Artic!

To ed. Hay stop sleeping and leaving in the 90th. Russia may be 15-20 yrs behind the US in terms of technology, but that does not mean Russia lost its superpower status. Russia is A SUPERPOWER. The rebirth of Russia is on course and they will soon be at per.