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MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator...

the flanks. Recently, President Vladimir Putin approved a government proposal to sign an agreement with Norway delimiting the Barents Sea shelf. This would end an almost 40-year dispute over a no-man's-land that covers 155,000 square kilometers and holds more than three trillion cubic meters of gas, an amount comparable to the Shtokman deposit.

When the northern conflict is settled, Russia may concentrate on the eastern flank. It has not ratified the Maritime Boundary Agreement with the United States on the Bering Sea. Signed in 1990 by then Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, it would give our neighbor almost two-thirds of the Bering Strait and Sea.

This generous gesture was intended to show Russia's readiness to compromise with the United States and the rest of the world. Now it seems that times have changed.

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