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The day of deletion has now been confirmed: Finnish and Russian ambassadors met January 17th and exchanged the documents signed by the presidents of both countries. The new agreement of the lease of Saimaa Channel will be in force one month from today – February 17th. As the new agreement does not include Malyj Vysotskij (R1MV …), the island will be deleted from the DXCC-list the day before, February 16th 2012.

This is, of course, subject to the decision of ARRL DXCC Committee.

It’s unlikely that any DXpedition will come on from the island before the deletion, although our Russian friends would have a possibility to do it.

now officially deleted [ARRL news]

Malyj Vysotskij Island (MVI), R1M, is no longer included in the Treaty. Thus, MVI will be deleted from the DXCC list as of February 17, 2012, and added to the Deleted Entities List.

DXCC members will see their current entity totals drop by one on their Mixed awards, and on the bands and modes where MVI credit is given. They will also see their DXCC Challenge totals drop commensurately.