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DISSERTATIONES IURIDICAE IRINA NOSSOVA UNIVERSITATIS TARTUENSIS 48 Russia’s international legal claims in its adjacent seas: the realm of sea as extension Sovereignty the realm international legal claims in its adjacent seas: Russia’s IRINA NOSSOVA Russia’s international legal claims in its adjacent seas: the realm of sea as extension of Sovereignty Tartu 2013 ISSN 1406–6394 ISBN 978–9949–32–321–0 DISSERTATIONES IURIDICAE UNIVERSITATIS TARTUENSIS 48 DISSERTATIONES IURIDICAE UNIVERSITATIS TARTUENSIS 48 IRINA NOSSOVA Russia’s international legal claims in its adjacent seas: the realm of sea as extension of Sovereignty Faculty of Law, University of Tartu, Estonia Dissertation is accepted for the commencement of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in law on May 29, 2013, by the Council of the Faculty of Law. Supervisor: Prof. L. Mälksoo (University of Tartu) Opponents: Prof. Dr. Eric Franckx (Vrije Universiteit, Brussel) Prof. Heiki Lindpere (Estonian Maritime Academy) Commencement will take place on August 28, 2013 at 12.00 in the Faculty of Law, Näituse 20 room K-03. Publication of this dissertation is supported by the Faculty of Law, University of Tartu. ISSN 1406–6394 ISBN 978–9949–32–321–0 (print) ISBN 978–9949–32–322–7 (pdf) Copyright: Irina Nossova, 2013 University of Tartu Press www.tyk.ee Order No 250 CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .......................................................................... 8 INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................... 9 1. Overview of the Essence of the Problem Discussed ................................ 9 2. Formulation of the Research Questions ................................................... 10 3. Arguments Set Forth for the Defense ....................................................... 11 4. Description of Methods ............................................................................ 14 PART I. RUSSIA’S LEGAL POSITIONS IN THE FOUR SEAS ............... 15 Chapter 1. The Position of the Russian Federation in the Arctic Ocean ....... 15 1.1. Arctic Ocean. The Importance of the Region ................................... 15 1.2. Arctic Ocean for Russia .................................................................... 17 1.3. Soviet-Russian Legal Regime in the Arctic. Polar Sector Theory ... 18 1.4. Scholarly and State Approaches to the Russian Arctic Sector ......... 22 1.5. Application of UNCLOS to Russian Arctic. Baselines .................... 24 1.6. Legal Regime of the Russian Territorial Sea in the Arctic ............... 24 1.6.1. Northern Sea Route ............................................................... 25 1.6.2. Legal regime of the NSR ........................................................ 27 1.7. Russian Regulation of Exclusive Economic Zone in the Arctic ....... 30 1.8. Russian Federation’s Legal Regime of the Arctic Continental Shelf 31 1.8.1. Concept of the Continental Shelf in Brief .............................. 31 1.8.2. Russian Regulation of the Continental Shelf ......................... 33 1.9. Russian Extended Continental Shelf Claims under UNCLOS ......... 35 1.10. Scholarly and State Approaches to the Russian Official Position Concerning Outer Limits of CS ..................................................... 40 1.11. Russian Maritime Boundaries in the Arctic .................................... 48 1.12. Russian Arctic Approach summa summarum ................................. 52 Chapter 2. The Position of the Russian Federation in the Caspian Sea ......... 55 2.1. Caspian Sea ...................................................................................... 55 2.2. A Sea or a Lake? ............................................................................... 55 2.3. Legal Regime of the Caspian Sea ..................................................... 59 2.3.1. Historical Approach ............................................................... 59 2.3.2. Russian Position ..................................................................... 60 2.3.3. Azerbaijan’s position .............................................................. 62 2.3.4. Kazakhstan’s Position ............................................................ 63 2.3.5. Turkmenistan’s Position ......................................................... 64 2.3.6. Iran’s Position ........................................................................ 64 2.3.7. Cooperation of Caspian States ............................................... 66 2.4. Russian Caspian Approach: Brief Summary .................................... 68 Chapter 3. Russian Position in the Region of Black Sea and the Sea of Azov 69 3.1. Legal Regime of the Black Sea ........................................................ 69 3.2. Legal Regime of the Sea of Azov ...................................................... 70 3.3. Russian-Ukrainian Delimitation Dispute in the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait ....................................................................................... 71 5 3.4. Summary of the Russian Federation’s Position in the Region of Black and Azov Seas ........................................................................ 74 Chapter 4. The Position of the Russian Federation in the Baltic Sea ............ 76 4.1. The Baltic Sea ................................................................................... 76 4.2. Historical Development of the Baltic Sea: dominium maris Baltici; Russian-Soviet Sea ........................................................................... 77 4.3. Maritime Boundaries in the Post-Soviet Baltic Sea ......................... 80 4.4. Russia’s Current Interests in the Baltic. Nord Stream Gas Pipeline . 84 4.5. Legal Aspects of Nord Stream in the Framework of UNCLOS ....... 87 4.5.1. Nord Stream in the Territorial Sea ......................................... 88 4.5.2. Nord Stream in the EEZ ......................................................... 90 4.6. Russians in the Baltics ...................................................................... 94 Chapter 5. General Remarks on the First Part ............................................... 96 PART II. RUSSIA’S APPROACH TO THE INTERNATIONAL LAW OF THE SEA THROUGH EXTENSION OF SOVEREIGNTY IN THE CASE OF FOUR OCEANS/SEAS .......................................................................... 99 Chapter 6. Concept of State Sovereignty. Russian Approach to the Doctrine of Sovereignty ............................................................................................... 99 6.1. Relevance of the Russian Notion of Sovereignty to the State’s Approach to the Law of the Sea ....................................................... 99 6.2. Sovereignty. Territory as its Core Element ...................................... 102 6.3. Russian Approach to the Concept of Sovereignty ............................ 105 6.3.1. Definitions of Sovereignty offered by Russian Legal Scholars 105 6.3.2. Elements of Sovereignty: State Power, Territory, Jurisdiction 107 6.3.3. Internal and External Sovereignty .......................................... 109 6.3.4. Economic Sovereignty ........................................................... 110 6.3.5. National Sovereignty .............................................................. 112 6.3.6. Sovereignty in the Constitution of the Russian Federation .... 113 6.4. Russian vs Western Concept of Sovereignty .................................... 114 Chapter 7. Extension of State Sovereignty into the Sea ................................ 120 7.1. Historical Development of International Law of the Sea. The Battle of Mare Clausum and Mare Liberum ............................................... 120 7.2. Sovereignty in UNCLOS .................................................................. 127 7.2.1. State Sovereignty within its Territorial Waters ...................... 127 7.2.2. Sovereign Rights of the Coastal State in EEZ ........................ 130 7.2.3. Coastal State Rights over the Continental Shelf .................... 131 7.2.4. The High Seas and the Deep Seabed as Limits to National Sovereignty ............................................................................ 133 7.2.5. UNCLOS as the Basis for Expansion of Sovereignty or Establishment of Property Rights ........................................... 134 6 Chapter 8. Sovereignty in Russian Understanding of the Law of the Sea ..... 137 8.1. Sovereignty over Territorial Sea ....................................................... 137 8.2. Sovereignty over Continental Shelf and EEZ ................................... 138 8.3. Russian Legal Claims based on the Concept of Sovereignty ........... 142 8.3.1. Russian Sovereign Claims in the Arctic ................................. 142 8.3.2. Russian Sovereignty over the Northern Sea Route ................ 149 8.3.3. Russian Claims in the Caspian Sea based on the Concept of Sovereignty ............................................................................ 149 8.3.4. Russian Claims in the Region of the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait based on the Concept of Sovereignty ............................................................................ 152 8.3.5. Russian Claims in the Baltic Sea based on the Concept of Sovereignty ............................................................................ 154 8.4. New Meaning of Russian Sovereignty over World Oceans and Seas 156 CONCLUSION ............................................................................................. 160 SUMMARY IN