Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170423:10:51:00
There so they want on to get theirs first. >> reporter: putin is navigating the region even having a russian flag planted on the ocean floor. russian has more arctic military bases than the u.s. and more ice breaking ships perhaps as many as 40. >> how many ice breakers do we have available? >> i believe it's one. >> one and a half. >> okay, 1.5. >> reporter: russia's race ahead of the u.s. in cornering the arctic analysts say is a sobering illustration of putin's ambitions. >> for the arctic, it is a prestige project. russia can conquering anything. it can build a and overcome nature. >> repo...
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