Norway's seizure of a Russian vessel is a dangerous escalation
Responsible Statecraft · baltic theater
Last week, Norwegian authorities seized the Russian ship Professor Molchanov in Svalbard at the request of Ukrainian state energy company Naftogaz.The vessel now sits immobilized in the port of Barentsburg, a settlement of Russian citizens on the Svalbard archipelago, which is part of Norway.The seizure is an attempt by Naftogaz to implement a 2023 ruling from an arbitration court in The Hague, which ordered Russia to pay the company $4.22 billion for assets seized in Crimea. Naftogaz won the right to seize the ship in a 2025 case in a Norwegian court, which recognized the arbitration award as
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