On December 15, 2024, an environmental disaster occurred in the Black Sea, not far from the Kerch Strait, during which the Russian tanker “Volgoneft-212” broke up and sank in a storm, and its sister ship…
When in the spring of 2022, after the start of the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the activities of one of the key instruments of the Kremlin’s global influence, the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping…
As the issue of staffing the Russian “shadow” tanker fleet has begun to receive some attention, but its main focus is still on business directly related to the Kremlin’s oil empire.But several structures that are…
Hundreds of companies for the employment of seafarers operate under the control of the Russian Federation, they have a different dimension in the system of Russian maritime business. Some firms still do not hide their…
The problem of deliberately creating obstacles to satellite navigation by jamming, i.e. jamming the GPS signal, and/or spoofing – replacing the correct signal with a false one, has now become systemic in the Baltic region….
For the last three weeks, the aggressor’s propaganda has not stopped regarding the announced, as part of the show of preparation for the “elections” of Sevastopol gauleiter Mikhail Razvozhaev, a certain “development of the seaport…
Some days ago, the aggressor’s “Crimean” propaganda announced the alleged launch of invaders’ electronic warfare system in occupied Crimea, allegedly “able to replace coordinates, jam GPS and Starlink signals.”At the same time, it is stated…
In early March, the aggressor-controlled “Sevastopol media” began to savor another round of a long litigation between the “department of land and property relations” of the occupiers and the “firm” “Recreation center “Mys Sarych”.Now it…
The continuation of the activities of the aggressor’s large-tonnage tanker fleet should be under constant monitoring, since structures of civilized countries of the world are still involved in the relevant operations, despite the corresponding sanctions…
The new systemic sanctions against the Russian ocean-going tanker fleet, introduced on February 24, 2025, increase the urgency of identifying violations of international maritime law by such vessels, the risks that their operation poses to…