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Quirino Mealha

Norway seizes Russian ship in the Arctic over Ukraine's $4.2 billion Crimea claim

Norwegian officials seized the Russian state-owned ship named "Professor Molchanov" on Wednesday at the port of Barentsburg in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.

The authorities acted on an application from Ukraine's state energy company, Naftogaz, which is pursuing compensation for energy assets Russia expropriated when it illegally annexed Crimea in 2014.

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