Russia has continued to transport the commodity via an aging fleet whose links to Moscow are hidden, often through shell companies. The EU has been struggling to clamp down on the Russian vessels, ...

European countries are pushing for new powers to squeeze Moscow’s shadow fleet after a spate of incidents in the Baltic Sea.

Net sales of stocks of Russian companies by the population amounted to 113.9 bln rubles ($1.2 bln) over the year ...

BEIJING, February 4. /TASS/. China has imposed export controls on items related to tungsten, tellurium, bismuth, molybdenum, and indium, the Ministry of Commerce reported.

For the second time in just weeks, an alleged Russian spy ship has entered UK waters, the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on Wednesday. The Royal Navy will continue to track the ...

The Royal Navy has been monitoring a Russian spy ship after it was spotted around UK waters earlier this week, the defence secretary has told MPs. John Healey said the vessel, Yantar, was used for ...

He also authorized a Royal Navy submarine to surface close to the Russian spy ship as a deterrence measure, making "clear that we had been covertly monitoring its every move," Healey said.

Two Royal Navy vessels, the HMS Somerset and HMS Tyne, were deployed "to monitor the vessel every minute through our waters," he said. Healey accused the Yantar of mapping the UK's undersea cables in ...

“Let me be clear, this is a Russian spy ship used for gathering intelligence and mapping the UK’s critical underwater infrastructure,” the defence secretary warned. “I changed the Royal ...