Santa Claus better fire up Craigslist, because he might need to find some new digs.

Why? Because Vladimir Putin and Russia want to move in on his sacred icy territory, claiming this week that their continental shelf “stretches beyond the North Pole”.

More from the Barents Observer:

The claim includes both the Mendeleev and Lomonosov Ridges, two major structures beneath the Arctic Ocean.

“… the claim determinating the outer borders of the continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean is based on the scientific understanding that the central Arctic underwater ridges, among them the Lomonosov, Medeleev, Alfa and Chukotskoye Heights, as well as the in between basins of Podvodnikov and Chukotskaya, have a continental character”, an offical statement, refered to by RIA Novosti, reads.

It will now be up to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf to decide if Russia should be entitled to include the huge additional areas under its sovereignty. The Commission confirms that “the consideration of the partial revised submission made by the Russian Federation will be included in the provisional agenda of the next ordinary session”, the Commission website informs.

A workshop, a truckload of elves, reindeer and all those heavy tools aren’t easy to move. Vlad better make it right in the deal. Throw the old man a bone.