Viktor Bout, Russia’s ‘Merchant of Death,’ Turns to Politics
As an arms trafficker, he operated in some of the world’s most dangerous places, becoming one of the world’s most wanted men and earning the nickname “Merchant of Death,” not…
A Merchant Ship’s Perilous Black Sea Passage in Ukraine
For five weeks, almost everything seemed to go wrong for one commercial vessel waiting in the Danube River to load Ukrainian grain bound for Spain via the Black Sea. First,…