The Russian Federation has the fourth-largest

exclusive economic zone An exclusive economic zone (EEZ), as prescribed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is an area of the sea in which a sovereign state has exclusive rights regarding the exploration and use of marine natural resource, reso ...

of with from its shores.

Geography

The EEZ borders with Norway, Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Lithuania and Poland to the west, the United States to the east, Japan, North Korea and South Korea to the south east and Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Turkey and Ukraine to the south.

Disputes

Active

Japan

There is a longstanding dispute with Japan over the southern part of the

Kuril islands The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands are a volcanic archipelago administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast in the Russian Far East. The islands stretch approximately northeast from Hokkaido in Japan to Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, separating the ...

. The dispute dates back to the

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and the

Yalta Agreement The Yalta Conference (), held 4–11 February 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe. The three sta ...

(February 1945). the United States maintained that until a peace treaty between Japan and Russia is concluded, the disputed Northern Territories remain under Russian control via

General Order No. 1 General Order No. 1 for the surrender of Japan was prepared by the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff and approved by President Harry Truman on August 17, 1945. It was issued by General Douglas MacArthur to the representative of the Empire of J ...

.Bruce A. Elleman, Michael R. Nichols and Matthew J. Ouimet, ''A Historical Reevaluation of America's Role in the Kuril Islands Dispute'', Pacific Affairs, Vol. 71, No. 4 (Winter, 1998–1999), pp. 489–504 In 2014 Marie Harf, a U.S. State Department spokeswoman stated that the United States recognizes Japan's sovereignty over the islands.

Resolved

Norway

* In 2010, the Norway and Russia dispute of both territorial sea and EEZ with regard to the

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archipelago as it affects Russia's EEZ due to its unique treaty status was resolved. A treaty was agreed in principle in April 2010 between the two states and subsequently officially ratified, resolving this demarcation dispute. The agreement was signed in Murmansk on 15 September 2010.Russia and Norway resolve Arctic border dispute
''The Guardian'', 15 September 2010. Retrieved 21 September 2010

References

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