barre in 1991, somalia erupted civil war, and the country fell apart, the sector of the water area wastrolled in any way, and civilian sailors, who were prohibited from having weapons, could not repel the pirates, the number of attacks on ships... grew spasmodically, if in 2004 two ships were boarded, then in the period from 2008 to 2012 is already 170. according to the un, in 2009-2011 , more than 500 attacks were carried out on civilian ships annually; the record year was 2010, when more than 30 ships fell into the hands of the somalis. among them was the tanker moscow university with a russian crew, it was freed russian frigate marshal shapushnikov, one of the pirates was killed, the rest were released by boat. according to a reuters investigation in 2010, pirates earned $240 million and caused $7 billion in damage. it was a very profitable business. there were rumors that behind the young guys on the motor boats there were skilled businessmen from the descendants of the colonialists, children and grandchildren. those who mastered samali stayed to live there and organized their own