By Selwyn Parker*
It’s the near-miss that has shocked Brussels into action. Drifting helplessly in the Baltic Sea with 100,000 tonnes of oil in its holds, the Panama-flagged tanker Eventin was a floating environmental time bomb until it was taken in tow in early January by German tugboats in an emergency rescue operation that demonstrates once again the extreme danger of Russia’s enormous shadow fleet. (The Lowy Institute. The Interpreter.)
