The Northern Sea Route: а National or an International Transportation Corridor?
... is an international strait and it is open for transit passage, which is our same interpretation of the Northern Sea Route.” It should be noted that for Washington, Russia’s claims to controlling navigation on the NSR route and Russia’s entire Arctic policy are in many ways identical to what is happening in the South and East China seas , where Beijing lays claims to expanding its sovereignty and jurisdiction and its rights to control the various types of marine economic activities of other ...