Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he attends a plenary session of the International Arctic Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia on April 9, 2019. A House of Commons committee is urging the government to work with NATO to determine Russia's true military intentions in the North in order to protect the country's Arctic sovereignty. That's the top recommendation of a report tabled today by the Commons foreign affairs and international development committee based on a study it began last June. Its release comes one day after Russian President Vladimir Putin outlined an ambitious plan to increase Russia's Arctic presence, including expanding its fleet of nuclear-powered ice breakers and building new ports and other infrastructure. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Dmitri Lovetsky
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