Legal Status of the Northern Sea Route and Legislation of the Russian Federation: A Note

Gavrilov, Viatcheslav

doi:10.1080/00908320.2015.1054746

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“…50 In the legal literature, it has also been described as an "indivisible transport route." 51 Indeed, the Russian legal regime treats the NSR as such by applying a uniform set of rules regardless of whether the status of the concerned maritime area is that of internal waters, territorial sea, contiguous zone, EEZ or strait. However, despite its purported character as "historically established" and an "indivisible" route, and despite assertion of authority over international navigation, Russian law stops short of explicitly claiming sovereignty on historical grounds over the entire NSR.…”

Section: Salient Features Of Canadian and Russian Regulation Of Arcti...mentioning

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Regulation of Arctic Shipping in Canada and Russia

2022

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As Arctic navigation increases and states work, both at the international and the domestic level, at ensuring legal readiness, this article takes a closer look at regulation of Arctic Shipping in Canada and Russia. The analysis first focuses on the current domestic regimes that have developed over the past decades. It highlights that dissimilar political, economic and environmental contexts have shaped not only different shipping patterns off the Canadian and Russian coasts, but also dissimilar coastal state approaches that do not seem to converge noticeably under the influence of the Polar Code. The analysis then turns to challenges that lay ahead as existing regimes could be called into question due to receding ice cover and may need to adapt to evolving shipping patterns and technological innovations.

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Regulation of Arctic Shipping in Canada and Russia

2022

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“…Similar legal grounds are used by Russia to justify its right to control navigation in the Northern Sea Route adjacent to its Arctic coast. 6 It is worth noting that the 200 nautical mile zones established by Canada and the Russian Federation in the central Arctic Ocean are not based on the so-called sector theory (straight lines that extend from the landmass converging at the North Pole) historically associated with these two states. 7 The seaward delineation of the limits of the territorial sea and 200 nautical mile zones are determined by baselines.…”

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Canada and the Russian Federation: Maritime Boundaries and Jurisdiction in the Arctic Ocean

Gavrilov,

McDorman,

Schofield

2022

Arctic Review

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The Arctic region has been the focus of considerable attention in recent years, often concerned with maritime claims and an alleged race for the region’s resources. Against this narrative, the article focuses on the practices of Canada and the Russian Federation with respect to their maritime jurisdictional claims and the delimitation of maritime boundaries with their Arctic neighbours. The article provides an overview of the Arctic region and the international law of the sea with an emphasis on the baselines and maritime claims of the Arctic coastal states. Discussion then turns to the maritime boundary agreements that have been concluded in the Arctic region before overlapping claims to areas of continental shelf underlying the central part of the Arctic Ocean are appraised. The article concludes that Canada and the Russian Federation have enjoyed considerable success in resolving overlapping maritime claims and their pragmatic and innovative approaches coupled with existing regional cooperation bode well for finding peaceful solutions to Arctic Ocean governance challenges in the future.

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