Ocean Outlawed. Slave Trade, Piracy, and Smuggling in Neutral Waters / Ian Urbina; — Translated from English — Moscow: Alpina Non-Fiction, 2022. — 776 pages. ISBN 978-5-00139-497-6. There are few unexplored territories left on our planet. But perhaps the wildest and least studied are the world's oceans. Too vast to control, and lacking clear international legal status, the huge zones of neutral waters have become havens for rampant crime. Slave traders and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, salvagers of sunken ships and buyers of confiscated goods, vigilant protectors of nature and elusive poachers, shackled slaves and abandoned illegal passengers. Pulitzer Prize winner Ian Urbina introduces us to the inhabitants of this closed world through his dangerous and fearless journalistic investigations, often hundreds of miles from shore, which formed the basis of this book. Through stories of remarkable courage and cruelty, survival and tragedy, the author reveals a global network of crime and violence entwining the world's most important economic sectors: fishing, oil production, shipping. UDC 913.3(26):343 BBK 67.519(9)