The problem of piracy in the Baltic Sea remains pressing, the Federal Security Service's coastal guard department said.
The deputy head of the department, Anatoly Kolesnik, told reporters on the sidelines of the seminar on coastal cooperation in the Baltic Sea region that the hijacking of the Arctic Sea provided grounds for discussing the problem at the international level.
"It is still not everything clear in this story, but it demonstrated that vessels can be hijacked in the Baltic Sea as well," he said adding that the countries of the Baltic Sea region also plan to hold anti-piracy naval drills in Kaliningrad.
Coastal cooperation among the countries of the Baltic Sea region - Russia, Finland, Germany, Poland, the Baltic states and Scandinavian countries - has been underway since 1997.
