
Thick sea ice threatens to thwart the expedition, an engineer with Russia's premier polar research institute said Friday.But if the effort succeeds, it could mark the official start of a very cold diplomatic war for the Arctic,one of the Earth's last energy frontiers.A convoy consisting of a research vessel and an icebreaker, and led by Russia's most famous polar explorer,set sail Tuesday from Murmansk toward the North Pole-shadowed, according to Russian TV reports,by at least one Norwegian military aircraft.
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