You gotta love the Russians...

When I saw the story that the Russians had let go of a bunch of pirates rather than take them to Russia to stand trail, I had thought that perhaps they had gotten soft.

It turns out that what they actually did was "let them go" on a small inflatable raft with no navigational equipment about 800 km off shore, which most likely sank about an hour after they were let go.

I suppose the pirates will now avoid Russian ships and concentrate on wimpy ransom paying countries such as Spain.