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…
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…