(Image: Andrzej Krauze)
WRANGEL Island is as remote as it gets. This speck of land in the Arctic Ocean far north of Siberia is where the last mammoths lived. Today it is rich in wildlife, one of the most important polar bear breeding grounds and UNESCO’s most northerly World Heritage Site. Some call it the Galapagos of the north. It’s a shame, then, that Russia has just built a military post there.
The geopolitical shock waves of Russia’s invasion of Crimea and military meddling in eastern Ukraine are spreading poleward. The damaged relations with the West have unleashed a new…
