A helicopter crash could add urgency to Russia’s push for a new base on Svalbard

By Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer October 27, 2017
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Just hours after Thursday’s tragic helicopter crash outside Barentsburg Anatoly Leontiev, a representative of the Russian Fishery Agency (Rosrybolovstvo), repeated his message that it is high time to build a Russian search and rescue base in Svalbard.

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