Russian law enforcement officers play a key role in the industrial-scale theft of oil from the country’s network of pipelines, an illicit business that robs the public coffers of hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue and wreaks damage on the environment, a new RFE/RL investigation shows.
RFE/RL: The great Russian oil heist
A floating dam is installed to limit the spread of oil pollution following a massive fuel spill in the Ambarnaya River outside Norilsk on June 10, 2020.
