TY - BOOK ID - 71441087 TI - The Russian Arctic straits PY - 2005 SN - 9004141804 9786610867394 1429452544 9047406729 1280867396 143370417X 9781429452540 9789004141803 9781280867392 6610867399 9789047406723 PB - Leiden Boston Nijhoff DB - UniCat KW - International law. KW - Straits KW - Law of nations KW - Nations, Law of KW - Public international law KW - Law KW - Channels, Sea KW - Narrows (Straits) KW - Passages (Straits) KW - Sea channels KW - Territorial waters KW - Barents Sea KW - Kara Strait (Russia) KW - Laptev Sea (Russia) KW - East Siberian Sea (Russia) KW - Chukchi Sea KW - International status. KW - Chuckchee Sea KW - Chukotskoe more KW - Chuckchi Sea KW - East Siberian Sea (R.S.F.S.R.) KW - Vostochno-Sibirskoe more (Russia) KW - Vostochno-Sibirskoye more (Russia) KW - Laptevykh, More (Russia) KW - More Laptevykh (Russia) KW - More Nordenshelda (Russia) KW - Nordenshelda, More (Russia) KW - Nordenskiöld Sea (Russia) KW - Nordenskjöld Sea (Russia) KW - Karskie Vorota (Russia) KW - Karskii︠a︡ Vorota (Russia) KW - Karskiya Vorota (Russia) KW - Proliv Karskiye Vorota (Russia) KW - Barents hav KW - Barents havet KW - Barent︠s︡evo more KW - Barentshavet KW - Barent︠s︡ovo more KW - Murmean Sea UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:71441087 AB - The issues surrounding the regimes of ice-covered areas, international straits, and passage rights of State vessels are analysed for the purpose of assessing the status of law and State practice in Russian Arctic waters. Passage through the Northern Sea Route has for decades been one of the most contentious legal issues in Soviet/Russian - U.S. relations. The jurisdictional claims of the large Arctic coastal States indicate substantial deviation from application of established law of the sea. The regimes of straits used for international navigation and passage rights of State vessels seem subordinate to the regime of ice-covered areas. The main finding is that there are certain elements of consistency in the common interpretation of existing law and the behaviour of these States. These elements seem to have put into action the process of formation of a specific customary international law, as well as implementation and interpretation of the law under the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. ER -