(MENAFN- Saudi Press Agency) MOSCOW Muharram 9 1437 Oct 22 2015 SPA -- Russia is building or plans to build a series of new Arctic military bases including on Wrangel Island Kotelny Island and at Cape Schmidt Reuters quoted Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu as saying on Thursday .
"We are not keeping this a secret - we have practically created a base on the Novosibirsk Islands the Island of Kotelny. This is a big military base there was no such in the Soviet period" the Interfax news agency also cited Shoigu as saying.
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