The Russian authorities have decided to unilaterally change the country's maritime borders with Lithuania and Finland in the Baltic Sea, according to a draft government resolution published on the portal of legal acts.
According to the document prepared by the Ministry of Defense, Russia intends to declare part of the water area in the east of the Gulf of Finland, as well as near the cities of Baltiysk and Zelenogradsk in the Kaliningrad region, as its internal sea waters.
The border revision document, which has not yet been officially commented on by the Finnish and Lithuanian Foreign Ministries, was presented for public discussion almost simultaneously with the start of exercises on the use of tactical nuclear weapons.
Just days after Putin's visit to China, Russian physicist Anatoly Maslov was sentenced to 14 years in prison for passing information on hypersonic flight to the Chinese.https://t.co/9Ybpm1BOwN
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🇷🇺🛢️ - Virtually every sanctioned Russian oil tanker is now sitting idle
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• 39 of 40 ships that US has sanctioned for breaching price cap are sitting idle
• Sanctioned tankers make up only small portion of Russian ghost fleet, with room for more sanctionshttps://t.co/b56krzzxSL
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