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The Northern Sea Route (NSR) may become a significant Russian contribution to China's One Belt, One Road project due to the shared interests of Russia and China. Russia definitely needs the NSR much more than any of the potential other participants in Belt and Road. The NSR plays a key role in the development of vast Russian territories that are largely uninhabited but possess tremendous reserves of timber, gas, oil and various other minerals and extensive sea areas with large fish resources. According to some estimates, the NSR connects areas that make up nearly 70% of Russia's territory.1 The NSR also has national security significance that is hard to overestimate. All this makes the NSR a strategic asset for Russia.
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