The Embassy of the Russian Federation to the Federal Republic of Germany presents its compliments to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and, in response to the communication of the Tribunal for the Law of the Sea of the 21st October 2013 regarding the request for the prescription of provisional measures under Article 290, Paragraph 5 of the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea submitted by teh Kingdom of the Netherlands in relation to the case concerning the vessel "Arctic Sunrise" has the honor to inform the Tribunal for the Law of the Sea of the following.