it is geopolitically important to support activities on svalbard.way's presence on svalbard means it could potentially block the russian northern fleet from reaching the atlantic in the event of a conflict. for this reason, analysts say, russia keeps. on the island, mainly in barensburg, military actions are prohibited here, and this is why observers say that russia is taking a hybrid approach, gradually developing activities permitted by law, such as research, industry and tourism, it is increasing its maritime presence, ultimately aimed at achieving strategic goals, scientists present on the archipelago note the strengthening of russian rhetoric on svalbard. first, official statements. russia, which has been very critical of norway, claiming that norway is militarizing the islands, carrying out nato mandates, and so on. rather harsh wording, which is usually interpreted by people as very hostile. russians don't even follow norwegian road rules. they drive cars in barensburg from with russian license plates, instead of the official norwegian licens

>> well, the storage facility itself is well inside of a mountain in svalbard, which is above mainland norway. it's very cold up there as you can imagine, and if you want to protect seeds for the long term, you freeze them. so the natural coal provided a backup for action the mechanical phrasing that we do employ there, which takes the temperature down to -18 celsius so we have protection physical and in terms of the temperature in that location, the seeds themselves are duplicate copies of seeds that are held and seed banks around the world. and today you mentioned there, i think more than 1,280,000 different samples. each sample, by the way, usually contains quite a bit of diversity itself. so if you think about this, we have a about 100 different types of wheat and 150,000 different types. types of rice. and many, many other crops stored out there. so this provides all the options that plant breeders will have in the future to deal with pest and diseases, to make yield improvements. and of course two combat climate change. >> yeah, and insects diseases, even politics have of course