Breaking the Ice: The Northern Sea Route
... via which the tax burden for such construction can be shared. For Russia major Arctic projects lack both, as construction on permafrost is far from easy and the constantly dwindling population due to migration or death undermines the internal market. ... ... self-sufficient industry. At the same time, it will unlikely to ever become a real cash-cow like the Suez or Panama Canals. At the conference, Mikhail Suslin and Vladimir Mednikov of Sovcomflot somewhat disagreed with their colleague Zagorsky, as they outlined ...