The shadow fleet of oil tankers enabling Russia’s war and undermining global sanctions

Russian President Vladimir Putin was sworn in for his fifth term in office this week, even as his country is beset by sanctions, bogged down in a years long war in Ukraine and cut off from capital markets. But Putin has found a series of workarounds that have helped bolster growth, funded his country’s war effort against Ukraine and worked to thumb his nose at the Western countries using economic sanctions to punish Russia. “We are a united and great people and together we will overcome all obstacles, implement all we planned,” said Putin in a brief inaugural address this…