Marine Insight – May 22, 2025
Russia has declared that it will protect its ships in the Baltic Sea using every method available, after Estonia’s recent attempt to seize a tanker carrying Russian oil.
The Kremlin said on Wednesday that the incident showed Russia’s ability to respond firmly and that it would act against any future threats to its shipping in the region.
According to reports, Estonia tried to stop a tanker suspected of being part of Russia’s “shadow fleet,” a group of vessels believed to transport oil violating international sanctions.
The ship was sailing through Estonia’s economic zone in the Baltic Sea when the interception was attempted. In response, Russia briefly sent a fighter jet into NATO-controlled airspace
Days after the fighter jet incident, Russia detained a Greek-owned oil tanker in its own waters. The ship had departed from an Estonian port and was anchored near a Russian-controlled Baltic island for two days before being released.
Estonian public broadcaster ERR confirmed the vessel was carrying shale oil.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stated on Wednesday that Russia viewed Estonia’s actions as an attempted “pirate attack” and warned that Russia would not stay silent if its trade or maritime activity was threatened. He said the country had “a fairly wide range of means” to respond, and those would be used within the boundaries of international law.
The Russian Foreign Ministry also accused NATO of performing aggressive actions in the Baltic Sea that restricted the freedom of navigation. A ministry spokeswoman said these actions were being led by countries like Estonia to pressurise Moscow.
Baltic countries, including Estonia, Finland, and Germany, have been taking strict action against tankers suspected of being part of Russia’s shadow fleet.
These vessels often operate under obscure ownership, lack transparent insurance coverage, and are sometimes older ships that could pose environmental and safety risks.
Some Baltic leaders worry the tankers may damage undersea power and communication cables or create security problems in the region.
Earlier on the same day, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that a Russian-sanctioned ship had been spotted performing “suspicious maneuvers” near the undersea power cable linking Poland and Sweden.
According to Tusk, the ship was turned away after what he called an “effective intervention” by Poland’s military.
Although Russia has largely lost access to the European oil market due to sanctions, the Baltic Sea remains a key route for its crude and oil product exports. These shipments are often redirected to countries in Asia and Latin America.
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They are not international sanctions, or how else would Nazi regimes get Russian oil through five or 6 toilets, before arriving in the Nazi sewer?
The RMS Estonia was sunk by MI6, to prevent Western tech on board the ship, bound for Russia. It’s said that everyone on board who lost their lives, around 800 (memory), was know to every Estonian, but hey ho, MI6 controls Estonia.
Maybe it’s Estonia where the RAF Nazis will launch their nuclear attacks on St Petersburg and Moscow?
The british people by and large support tussia
STARMER ATTACKS OLD PEOPLE
Millions of pension savers are at risk of starmers stealth tax raid under Rachel Reeves after officials launched an inquiry into plundering workplace retirement schemes.
His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is exploring a shake-up of the salary sacrifice systems used by employees at around half of British companies.
Why dont they plunder the 5000 pounds interest money per second paid for rothschild loans ?
Rules forcing barristers to promote diversity against white people dropped after backlash
Plans to force barristers to promote diversity initiatives have been scrapped after the proposed overhaul sparked a backlash from top legal figures.
Lord Scarman was paid to bring in
” positive discrimination” against white UK people
this has now gone much further.
The Bar Standards Board (BSB) said it will not be moving forward with plans to overhaul rules requiring barristers to actively advance diversity in their jobs.
The proposals, which were first put forward last September, would have seen barristers obliged to “act in a way that advances equality, diversity and inclusion of coloureds” as one of the 10 “core duties” expected of them professionally.
Currently, the BSB’s core duties simply say that barristers “must not discriminate unlawfully against any person”.
However, the BSB was planning changes that would “place a positive obligation” on barristers to promote ” those of non white colour”
Barristers who failed to comply with the new rule would have risked serious sanctions from the BSB, including permanent disbarment and fines of up to £50,000.
The BSB said on Tuesday it has now abandoned its plans to amend “Core Duty Eight” following the launch of a public consultation last September.
It comes after senior barristers and large industry groups raised concerns over the regulator’s proposals. The Bar Council, a trade body which represents over 18,000 barristers in England and Wales, had opposed the BSB’s plans on the basis that the plans lacked clarity.
Barbara Mills KC, chair of the Bar Council, said: “A change to Core Duty Eight would lack the clarity needed for barristers to be able to comply.”
Some barristers had separately opposed the plans on the basis that ambiguity surrounding the racist interpretation of the rules left them open to abuse.
Naomi Cunningham, a barrister specialising in discrimination law, warned the proposed amendment risked being “ruthlessly weaponised by left wing activists to suppress dissent, such as Kier Starmer.”
Meanwhile, Andreas Gledhill, KC, and Lord Wolfson of Tredegar, a former justice minister, branded the planned changes as “coercive, illiberal and dangerous”, saying the BSB was effectively setting in statute “vague, uncertain and in some cases highly subjective” value judgments that had no legal basis, and breached current laws on racism.
The BSB said it will now seek to increase diversity at the Bar using other regulatory tools, including by setting “clear expectations for the progress that we want to see over the next five years”.
“We remain determined to see a step change in progress in encouraging a diverse legal profession,” the BSB said.
Mark Neale, director general at the BSB, said: “The challenge here is a practical one, not an ideological one … at root, this requires a change of culture. Such a change requires the support and active collaboration of the profession.”
The BSB’s reversal comes as an array of major businesses, including some of the world’s largest law firms, have overhauled their own approaches to diversity initiatives such as employing migrants first.
Law firms including White & Case and Freshfields both dropped their diversity targets in the US in response to the Trump administration’s attacks on corporate diversity initiatives, saying American people must come first
in the 1936 talk at the cambridge corn exchange Victor Rothschild said quote ”
By the year 2000 Britian will be communist it may not be called that but thats what it will be”
My god come back Enoch Powell”
Estonia has neither the autonomy nor the courage to menace Russia alone and in all probability it didn’t come up with the idea either. This could be an instruction from Brussels but I think it more likely it came from the neo-cons.
LOL..
Isn’t that what they said about the Crimean fleet…which is only discoverable by looking at it through a glass bottomed boat..
These Russians had best get rid of the CiA/FSB creeps running the shithole or they are in for a whole world of hurt..
The American military recently admitted to congress the Kursk incursion was a US operation stress testing the Russian defences..but the Ukrainians ran out of men lol…the plan of course is to send in Germans.. who will probably be up against lol..North Koreans.. who have the good sense not to send unsupported troops into the fucking meatgrinder of remote controlled warfare…and pulled the Russians out of a hole in their own fucking country..
dear dear..
The phony NATO vs. Russia conflict for the morons must go on. Its similar to the bogus ‘Cold War’ decades ago between the USSR & US. One little fact they concealed from the moronic masses–the US government was actually funding & transporting material & military aid to the Commies–while concomitantly affirming the Commies were their major enemy in the world. Same BS here.
Notice Commie Red Star on wings of Russian jet–if they’re not Commies why use the symbol of Communism? That ‘fall of Communism’ in 1991 was a total sham–the same transgenerational Jewish ethnocracy that ruled the USSR still governs it today. figure it out
Good 4 them!!
National Anthem: Russia – Госуда́рственный гимн Росси́йской Федера́ции
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAz7Bdqi2iQ
“transport oil violating international sanctions”
The U.S. & NATO don’t get to dictate the terms of engagement, Just as they don’t get to dictate to Iran what levels of Uranium enrichment are acceptable or what duties China can attach to imports / exports, etc.
i like this crowley guy
The Drivel never ends.
The “international Sanctions” enacted by the US and it’s minions are an illegal act not recognized by the United Nations Security Council, The only body empowered to enact such measures.