The Revived Arctic Geopolitics: The Implication of Geopolitical Interests of Russian Federation on the Arctic Region

The article studies the (geo) political moves and activities of the Russian Federation in the Arctic region, which shape and cause the intensification of the Arctic geopolitics, making it a new geopolitical hotspot. The article studies contemporary Russian actions, political choices, and developments in the region, especially its security, energy, economic interests, its goals and means of realization that are strategies. Notably, these geopolitical realities lead to the rise of two tendencies in the Arctic region, cooperation, and competition. After all, geopolitical concerns will be presented through studying governance and territorial claims, delivering particular significance to the claim of the Russian Federation to the North Pole. The demonstration of the permanent correlation of both Russian geopolitical realities and the Arctic will show the gradual turn of the region into the geopolitical hotspot.