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Ice-free for only two months of the year, the Northeast Passage shipping route has been neglected since the collapse of the Soviet Union. But steps are being taken to revive the Europe-Asia route, which runs north of Norway and Murmansk before crawling along Siberia's Arctic coast and the Bering Strait.
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