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The north of European Russia was mostly colonized by the Novgorodians from the 14th to 15th centuries, with the ushkuyniks possibly leading the way from the 12th to 14th centuries; northern Russian traditions linked the appearance of brigand hideouts on mountainous terrain or the mouths of rivers with the ushkuyniks, and dens organized by the ushkuyniks for raids have been hypothesized by ...
Map showing Slavic raids on Scandinavia in the mid-12th century. Groups of pirates of Slavic descent lived in the Baltic Sea region dating as far back as the 8th to 14th centuries. With some considering them as a part of the orbit of the Viking age labeling them as Vikings either by confused misunderstood identification or the deliberate choice ...
Pages in category "Russian pirates" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Ushkuiniks were Russian Novgorodian Volga river pirates from the tenth to the fourteenth centuries. Both medieval river pirate groups were Slavic versions of Viking river raiders. Yermak Timofeyevich was a 16th-century Cossack river pirate who started the Russian conquest of Siberia , in the reign of Tsar Ivan the Terrible .
Russia: A Cossack pirate who operated on the Volga and later expanded into the Caspian Sea. Peter Roderigo: 1674–1675 Netherlands He is best known for attacking English traders off Acadia and for serving in King Philip's War. Richard Sawkins: d. 1680 1679–1680 England
In December 2009, Russian-based Internet provider Yota, with over 100,000 subscribers [9] blocked access to some Russian opposition Internet resources for its Moscow-based subscribers for a few days. This occurred after the chief prosecutor of St. Petersburg recommended that the company prevent access to extremist resources.
A pirate skiff in Baltiysk, Russia — captured by the Russian Navy (from Piracy off the coast of Somalia) Image 83 Map of Tripoli in 1561 (from Albanian piracy ) Image 84 Capture of the Pirate Blackbeard, 1718 depicting the battle between Blackbeard and Robert Maynard in Ocracoke Bay; romanticized depiction by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris from 1920 ...
A pirate skiff in Baltiysk, Russia — captured by the Russian Navy. The methods used in a typical pirate attack have been analyzed. [119] They show that while attacks can be expected at any time, most occur during the day; often in the early hours. [clarification needed] They may involve two or more skiffs that can reach speeds of up to 25 knots.