Dispute about Spitsbergen: the issue hasn't been settled yet

Dispute on Spitsbergen has a long history. It can be divided into a number of questions, each of which has consistently come to the fore different historical periods. Severe economic and political contradictions between Norway and the rest of the Treaty of Paris exist objectively as the "Spitsbergen square" and on the archipelago. Signing of Russian-Norwegian Agreement on Maritime Delimitation and cooperation in the Barents Sea and Arctic Ocean (2010), not eliminate them