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Arctic Sea: More Questions About a Hijacked Ship
MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ | NYT
MOSCOW — The eight men who were said to have commandeered a cargo ship in the Baltic Sea in July were locked up weeks ago. They were declared pirates, hunted down by the Russian Navy, captured without a fight and marched before television cameras to a Moscow jail.
But the swashbuckling [...]
Probing the Arctic Sea conspiracies
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File photo of the Arctic Sea
Experts found it hard to believe the ship would be hijacked for its cargo of timber
What really happened when the Arctic Sea cargo ship went missing amid allegations of hijacking and weapons smuggling? The BBC’s Sarah Rainsford went to Kaliningrad to find out.
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