Exclusive economic zone of Russia

The Russian Federation has the fourth-largest exclusive economic zone of 7566673 km2 with 200 nmi 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.

Japan
There is a longstanding dispute with Japan over the southern part of the Kuril islands. The dispute dates back to the Soviet Union and the Yalta Agreement (February 1945). The United States maintains that until a peace treaty between Japan and Russia is concluded, the disputed Northern Territories remain under Russian control via General Order No. 1.

Norway

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

Peanut Hole

 * In the Sea of Okhotsk, a region outside the Russian EEZ, known as the Peanut Hole, was being exploited by other nations, due to fish from the Russian EEZ moving in and out of the Peanut Hole, and the hole being out of Russian jurisdiction. The UN later determined that the whole Peanut Hole was Russian in March 2014.