Killiana1a on 09 December 2010
If Russia is flying over Canadian land, there is a high likelihood they are flying over US land (Alaska) too.
Reasons? It depends. I think a lot of those Cold War generals are still in the Russian military and have their views crystallized even now that they run war simulations of invading the US via Alaska down through Canada. Thusforth, they are testing how much Canada will put up even 20 years after the Cold War ended (for them it did not apparently).
If anything, Russia should be more concerned with the Caucasus region to their south. Chechyna has killed more Russian soldiers and civilians via Beslan and other terrorist acts than the US or Canada.
