Amusing Delimitation: How to Neatly Split the Arctic Shelf

... completed only by 2027 [5] . In turn, prominent Russian international lawyer Yury Kazmin warns that "for Russia, the process should optimistically take 20-25 years." [6] And Canada would not be able to handle the matter faster. Hence, the Arctic delimitation talks may last several dozen years, similar to the Russian-Norwegian dispute on the Barents Sea that took as long as 40 years, since there are a host of objective hurdles related to the characteristics of the central Arctic Ocean, i.e. poor ...