On Thursday, January 24, 2013 10:35:29 AM UTC, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21119774
This has been known for years - the Bellona.no site has excellent coverage of it, in English too.
The Russians didn't do anything the West didn't do, but they did it on a sea coast with bad weather, rather than a dry desert, and they also did it on a rather bigger scale.