But Western governments and sanctions experts say Moscow has resorted to using a so-called shadow ... and flagged in places like Gabon or the Cook Islands. Some of the vessels are owned by the Russian ...

Ukrainian officials welcomed Donald Trump ’s threat to sanction Russia harder, suggesting punitive measures against Russian ...

The “vintage tonnage” is the “shadow fleet” of second-hand oil tankers that were spared from the ship-breaking yards in 2022 because Russia lost its export market in Europe when it invaded Ukraine.

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The outgoing Democratic administration billed the new sanctions as the most significant to date against Moscow's oil and liquefied natural ... and flagged in places like Gabon or the Cook Islands.

It evokes 17th-century pirate vessels flying the skull-and-crossbones, 18th century ships-of-the-line bristling with cannons, or even 19th-century clipper ships in full sail bringing tea to England ...

The name is brilliant: "vintage tonnage". It evokes 17th-century pirate vessels flying the skull-and-crossbones, 18th-century ships-of-the-line bristling with cannons, or even 19th-century clipper ...

The exemplary state in Françafrique was undoubtedly Gabon, then a poor country of just ... the Soviet Union collapsed, with Moscow losing an empire of seven Eastern European satellite states ...

The outgoing Democratic administration billed the new sanctions as the most significant to date against Moscow's oil and liquefied ... and flagged in places like Gabon or the Cook Islands.