The names of foreign places can be filled with an inexplicable magic, as all travellers know, even in an age when this magic ...

TALLINN, Estonia — Baltic Sea countries are exploring new measures to detain ships they suspect of cutting cables and illegally carrying Russian oil, using everything from piracy laws to insurance ...

Russia, which was formally notified of the impending disconnection last year, has been accused of sabotaging underwater cables in the Baltic Sea region by ships dragging anchors along the seabed.

The Baltic Sea region is on high alert after power cable, telecom links and gas pipeline outages between the Baltics and Sweden or Finland. All were believed to have been caused by ships dragging ...

Launched in mid-January as an emergency measure in the Baltic Sea, it aims to protect the extensive infrastructure that spans its depths. In the damp fog, with renewed suspicions of acts of ...

BRUSSELS, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Captains of ships that damage underwater infrastructure in the Baltic Sea such as telecoms cables or pipelines should be put under EU sanctions to deter such acts ...

That's why Russia launched an offensive in the Baltic [Sea] region. It felt that its oil empire could come to an end." The Baltic seabed hosts three key types of communications: gas pipelines, ...

It was decommissioned in 2009. Lithuania built an offshore oil terminal in the Baltic Sea in 1999. Seven years later, it became the country’s sole crude oil import point after Russia’s ...

The Baltic Sea is relatively small ― roughly five times the surface-area size of Lake Superior ― so we awakened each morning at a different port. Get Starting Point A guide through the most ...

Several undersea power and telecom cables have been severed in the Baltic Sea in recent months. Some politicians have accused Russia of waging a hybrid war but Moscow has denied allegations.