Director of the Legal Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maxim Musikhin highlighted that all unfounded demands had been rejected in international arbitration MOSCOW, June 24. /TASS/. Victory in the dispute over the rights of a coastal state has affirmed Russia’s sovereignty over the waters of the Kerch Strait, the Sea of Azov, and the maritime areas surrounding Crimea, according to Maxim Musikhin, Director of the Legal Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry. Speaking at the St.