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On January 30, 2023 the website of the "Russia in Global Affairs" magazine published the opinion of Pavel Gudev, Head of the Group of US and Canada Policy Studies in the World Ocean, and Ilya Kramnik, Research Fellow of the Sector for US Foreign and Domestic Policy of the Center for North American Studies, “Estonian Plans in the Gulf of Finland: What Was It?”.

Estonia's intention to introduce the regime of the contiguous zone in the Gulf of Finland should not entail any real changes and legal consequences for navigation in this area. Nevertheless, there are a number of negative trends that could fundamentally change the situation.