Rogozin six hour stop in Longyearbyen and Barentsburg Saturday, today received a lot of Russian media.
He stands on the list of undesirable people in Norway after their active support to the Russian annexation parts of Ukraine. According TV2 call Foreign Affairs Russian Ambassador on the carpet after Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin Saturday visited Svalbard.
Rogozin between landed on Svalbard on the way to the North Pole, where Russia has opened a new scientific station some distance away the pole itself.
Stresses greater Russian presence
In what clearly has been a well-planned expedition has Dmitry Rogozin has made several statements in which he underlined the importance of increased Russian presence in the Arctic .
– We have come to the Arctic forever and we’ll do it ours, says Rogozin, who is one of the Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest associates, and is responsible for development of the North.
He has long been one of the most nationalistic and aggressive Russian politicians, and his open support for annexation of the Ukrainian Crimean peninsula and support to those prorussiske separatists in the Donbass, has made that he is landed on the EU sanctions list, which also Norway has endorsed.
Make fun of Norwegian authorities
The plane with Rogozin country ie yesterday at the airport in Longyearbyen without Norwegian authorities had controlled who was on board.
The countries that have signed the Svalbard Treaty has the right to engage in business in the archipelago, and normally do not need to show your passport on entry. Neither the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow or the Norwegian Foreign Ministry was informed Deputy Prime Minister Rogozin journey yesterday.
Even’ve Dmitry Rogozin today sent out several messages on Twitter where he makes fun of Norwegian authorities handling case.
“It is too late to shut the well when the child has drowned,” reads freely translated in one of the messages.
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