The six-week mission on a nuclear ice-breaker claimed that the underwater Lomonsov ridge is geologically linked to the Siberian continental platform - and similar in structure.
If that's the case, then we can say the ocean floor is geologically linked to the rest of the world and so we own it. :shrug: And I think that there is a similar treaty for the Arctic as there is for the Antarctic that Russia has signed preventing them from claiming any part of it, and doing anything with it other than scientific research.
They can have the oil and such, but WE get santa's workshop!!! 
