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28.09.2009, 08:32 4 comments

Modern piracy rooted in poverty and war

Pirates off the coast of Somalia are still a major threat to commercial shipping despite a large-scale international military effort to net them. Thirty-one international warships are now patrolling the Gulf of Aden.

25.10.2010, 17:45

Hijacked German cargo ship freed

Pirates have fled the German Beluga Fortune dry cargo ship they earlier seized in the central part of the Indian Ocean off the coast of Kenya.

Sichem Peace (Photo by Tom Turner) 22.07.2009, 11:20

Captured sailors released

Six sailors, including a Russian captain and mechanic kidnapped in Nigeria on July 4, have been released.

Thai-Union 3 08.03.2010, 16:55

Somali pirates release Thai fishing vessel with Russians onboard

A Thai fishing vessel with a crew including 23 Russians - is now on its way to the Seychelles, after being released by Somali pirates on Sunday.

06.05.2010, 15:55 15 comments

Pirate-captured tanker freed by Russian navy

The crew of a large Russian anti-submarine ship has freed an oil tanker seized by Somali pirates on Wednesday. All 23 Russian sailors from the hijacked vessel have escaped the incident unscathed.

Alleged hijackers of Arctic Sea under safe convoy at the Moscow airport of Chkalovsky 23.08.2009, 11:39 4 comments

Arctic Sea hijack suspects questioned in Moscow

The eight suspected hijackers of the ‘Arctic Sea’ cargo ship have been arrested and questioned by investigators in a high-security prison in Moscow this week.

19.11.2009, 15:00 5 comments

Somali pirates waste ransom money on weddings and orgies

The Somali pirates have spent the € 2.7 million they got for the liberation of the Alakrana trawler from the Spanish government on weddings and orgies.

07.05.2010, 10:39 3 comments

Attackers of Russian tanker released in open sea

The Russian Navy has had to release 10 Somalis, captured earlier in an operation to rescue a seized tanker. There was no legal way to prosecute them for piracy.

12.05.2009, 23:24 2 comments

Pirates could face UN court

Russia’s Prosecutor General’s office has called on the UN to create an international court to try Somali pirates.

28.05.2009, 18:48 2 comments

Russia hands over Somali pirates to Middle East states

It has been revealed that Russia released 29 pirates held off the Somali coast to Iran and Pakistan three weeks ago, saying there was no legal basis to try them in Russia.

No breakthrough in fighting Somali pirates

Published: 21 May, 2010, 08:31
Edited: 21 May, 2010, 23:07


Russia is preparing to start negotiations to free two of its sailors captured by pirates last weekend.

 
3 COMMENTS
joseph walker May 21, 2010, 14:31 quote
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Well our govts on this planet are thick as two planks of wood.They philosopy is, they going to educate the pirates.terrorist ,etc.etc.Oh well let our comediens carry on.The laugh is on them.although I feel sorry for our Military forces.There is an effective cure.Reduce the port to rubble,blow apart any vessel fishing or any non western boats in the harbour. and around it shores..Ps They done this centuries ago,oh well we have all these educated morons about today.

Zak May 21, 2010, 15:51 quote
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Its unbelivable...ships from many states are there and yet they can not stop pirates!Sometimes this piracy look like a bad joke... In my opinion all states who really wish to stop piracy, shall work out proper policy how to achive their goal to secure this waterways .All ships must act as one Navy... Chess is intresting game and unless you cover all your fields and coordinate moves-security will not be any better. I am aware that "field" to cover is huge but still you got all tools at hand(bring more ships if you need more)for hijackers to outsmart you over and over...Sometimes I think that piracy is not no.1 target or purpose for all of this ships there but rather as excuse for something else. Thank you.

PR101 May 21, 2010, 17:33 quote
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For reasons which are not clear Russia has refused to see the piracy in the Horn of Africa is part of much larger crisis in the Horn of Africa. Many of the EU nations -including France and Spain- have 7Billion dollar high quality lucrative Tuna industry in the Horn of Africa. Removing pirates for France and Spain means also removing Somali fishermen and protecting French and Spanish fishing boats in these waters. The UNSC is silent on this issue. Thus, key members of NATO, the war against Somali pirates has also been used as a cover for the presence of factory trawlers which are wrecking war ecology and precious marine resources in the waters of the Horn of Africa. Russia has refused to bring the thorny issues of illegal toxic waste dumping and illegal fishing as part of comprehensive strategy against piracy in the Horn of Africa in the UNSC meetings. The local people are almost never invited to meeting on Piracy in the Horn of Africa. Now we see the piracy is spreading to central Africa such as Cameron in the Atlantic Ocean. It is ironic that during the Cold War the Soviet Union protected vulnerable African people from capitalist vultures but today Russia has very little interests in protecting the rights of the African people. Today Russia's economic elite are interested primarily making economic deals. I am slowly coming to terms of that the new Russian mentality toward Africa and it does not look very promising. I have no sympathy for the pirates even though deep down it looks crude and inhumane the way Russia’s navy recently dumped pirates in the middle of the ocean knowing full well they would drown. But Russia shows more eagerness to play along the NATO geopolitics than to take its own position on how to best confront the menace of sea piracy in and off the Horn of Africa.

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