Russia's Cold War navy has been revived to patrol the melting arctic Russia's nuclear powered battle cruiser "Peter the Great" Russia is moving ships to the arctic and rebuilding a naval base in Siberia to begin regular, permanent patrols of the newly open Northern Sea Route, reports the Christian Science Monitor. Russian naval ships haven't regularly patrolled the arctic since the Cold War, and the Russian fleet has been largely mothballed for the last 25 years ...
Sept. 17, 2013 - The Online NewsHour