MOSCOW, July 5 State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin instructed the House International Affairs Committee to study the issue of denunciation , or the suspension of the agreement between Russia and Norway on the delimitation of maritime spaces and cooperation in the Barents Sea. As noted by the deputy from the Communist Party Mikhail Matveev, the agreement was ratified by the State Duma in 2010 According to him, «We ceded 175 thousand square kilometers of the Barents Sea to Norway.» According to the politician, the measures were explained by the fact that the agreement was supposed to have a positive effect on «interaction between the Arctic countries.» «Today we see how the Kingdom of Norway is preventing food supplies from being sent to Svalbard, to our settlements,» he said. then inform the deputies,» Volodin said.
