A YNet News investigation raises questions that Russia hijacked The Arctic Star.
Like Time magazine, — which suggested that Israel intercepted the ship — YNet News restrained itself from hyping up its coverage with other incidents on the high seas.
Had the two papers wanted to "sex up" their stories, they might have, for example, tied in the fact the Russian and Iranian navies are raising their profile to protect what passes for "legitimate shipping" from Israeli "pirates."
But expanding the story that way would require implausible, unverified claims — the likes of which you nowadays find in a certain Swedish paper.
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