LIVADIA, Crimea. April 28 (Interfax) - The Marine Board under the Government of the Russian Federation is planning to develop a mechanism of government response to piracy, the board's chairman, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, said.
"We have agreed that the Marine Board will discuss and pass a mechanism for Russian authorities' cohesive steps to assure our citizens, if they are, say, sailors or passengers who find themselves in this kind of situations, that is, actual sea piracy - how Russia will act to protect the inalienable civil and human rights of Russian citizens," Rogozin told reporters after the board's meeting in Livadia, Crimea, on Saturday.
"We are outraged, we are categorically outraged by what happened," he said of the detention by Ukrainian border guards of the Crimean fishing boat Nord in the Azov Sea more than a month ago.