Comment Re:Close the Gulf of Finland to Russian Traffic (Score 1) 167
Russia's access to the Baltic is at the allowance of Finland and Estonia. Russian traffic must go through one of these two country's national waters.
There is actually a section of the Gulf of Finland that's international waters in the middle. A relatively narrow section, but still. So passage to St. Petersburg does not need to go through the national waters of Finland or Estonia.
I tried to look for a map to link, but best I could find was on this old Yle News article which shows only a part of it:
https://yle.fi/a/74-20089938