Among other items, Gabon sells parts for aircraft to Russia. Last year alone, it delivered parts worth $1.5 billion to Moscow ...

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But Western governments and sanctions experts say Moscow has resorted to using a so-called shadow ... and flagged in places ...

The name is brilliant: "vintage tonnage". It evokes 17th-century pirate vessels flying the skull-and-crossbones, 18th-century ships-of-the-line bristling with cannons, or even 19th-century clipper ...