But Western governments and sanctions experts say Moscow has resorted to using a so-called shadow ... and flagged in places ...

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, arrived to chants of “USA! USA! USA!” inside a ...

President Joe Biden's administration says it's expanding sanctions against Russia's critically important energy sector over ...

could make a pile of money by putting it at Moscow’s disposal. You’ll have to reflag it with some country that doesn’t care much about its reputation: current favourites are Gabon ...

The exemplary state in Françafrique was undoubtedly Gabon, then a poor country of just ... the Soviet Union collapsed, with Moscow losing an empire of seven Eastern European satellite states ...

The outgoing Democratic administration billed the new sanctions as the most significant to date against Moscow’s oil and ... and flagged in places like Gabon or the Cook Islands.

Ukraine welcomes Trump’s threat to sanction Russian oil and gas even harder - US president says no desire to hurt Russia but ...

After the withdrawal, it will have bases in just two African countries: Gabon and Djibouti ... Niger and Burkina Faso. For years, Moscow had used its military bases in Syria as the main supply ...

The name is brilliant: ‘vintage tonnage’. It evokes 17th-century pirate vessels flying the skull-and-crossbones, 18th-century ships-of-the-line bristling with cannons, or even 19th-century clipper ...