INVESTIGATIONS

In January 2026, 14 littoral states of the Baltic and North Seas issued a joint demand for the need to comply with basic maritime law during tanker traffic, as an apparent response to the constant…

In early June, global economic media reported on active negotiations between the Singaporean subsidiary of the Russian concern “Novatek”, “Novatek Gas & Power Asia”, Japanese shipowners “Mitsui O.S.K. Lines” and South Korean shipbuilders “Hanwha Ocean…

Recently, the aggressor began the process of “adopting a federal law regulating the activities of rehabilitation centers for wild animals.” Under this guise, among other things, the systemic “dolphin rehabilitation” scams, which have a billion-dollar…

In May, the Belgian media “24 Brussels” published an interesting article devoted to the activities in Russia and other jurisdictions of the corporation “TÜV Austria”, which apparently has systemic ties to the Russian shadow fleet….

In May, the “Center for Journalistic Investigations” drew readers’ attention to the aggressor’s latest provocations in the fields of marine fishing and the canned fish industry, linked to the occupied Crimea. The corresponding investigation describes…

A comprehensive analysis of global and regional maritime security issues has drawn our attention to a number of developments related to new approaches to critical underwater infrastructure.Last month, at a meeting of the OSCE Permanent…

In 2026, new trends in fraud with ship documents of the Russian tanker fleet, related to their “insurance”, became known, which is worth analyzing on an extremely typical example.The tanker of the Russian shadow fleet…

For the past three years, experts have been actively investigating the activities of another tool of the Kremlin’s external influence, namely the “International Russophile Movement” (“IRM”), the “founding congress” of which was held on March…

In March, a number of analytical resources from European countries recalled that since 2022, Greek shipowners have launched a campaign to resell large-tonnage tankers that transported Russian cargo, but key corporations from this country still…

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…