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Finland jails Russian cargo ship captain over Baltic Sea cable sabotage

Headline from South China Morning Post · First reported Nov 5, 7:30 AM ET () · Updated Nov 5, 8:54 AM ET · 2 sources, 2 articles

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A Finnish court on Thursday jailed the Russian captain and an Azerbaijani crew member of the cargo ship Fitburg for aggravated sabotage over damage to two subsea ‌telecommunications cables in the Gulf of Finland last year. Finland on December 31 seized the vessel in the Gulf of Finland while it was…

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Left · New York TimesFinland Sends 2 Men to Prison for Damaging Undersea Cable in Baltic Sea
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