In April 2026, we published the investigation on the Russian shadow fleet’s fake “insurance certificates” connected with the phantom “Seaguard P&I” structure.We wrote that the website of the “Seaguard P&I” structure was created in May…
Recent investigations into the schemes surrounding the Russian shadow fleet have focused on issues such as insurance, vessel classification, documentation, crew recruitment, and the provision of pilotage services. However, the towing of these shadow fleet…
New publications of European media describe the processes of sanctions circumvention in framework of fuel supply to Russia with the relevant Crimean trace. “Reuters” reported that at the end of July traders unloaded approximately 30,000…
The disaster with two gas tankers, during a covert transshipment of cargo from side to side off the coast of occupied Crimea in early 2019, for the first time clearly showed the consequences of Russia’s…
Recent publications in the European press about challenges to Bulgarian democracy and its European future have prompted us to revisit a five-year-old investigation detailing the “Crimean connection” to Russian provocations in the Balkans, updating its…
In July 2026, a number of research institutions and media reported new leaks of fuel oil from the Russian tanker “Volgoneft-239”, which sank in December 2024 near the Kerch Strait. At the same time, the…
Our Association periodically reports on the situation in the occupied Crimea as a springboard for the aggressor’s cognitive war against the civilized world. Analysis of the accumulated information allowed our experts Anna Prykhodko and Eduard…
Amid the regular and dangerous GPS jamming in the Baltic and Black Seas, which European governments directly link to the Russia’s hybrid actions, our expert Eduard Pleshko talks about the Crimean trail of radio interference…
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…