Russian Version of Catch and Release

Perhaps our Russian friends should peruse a few of our Montana fishing brochures and videos in order to brush up on their catch and release programs. Or maybe not. Is there an international version of the ACLU? Do pirates have 4th and 8th Amendment rights?

This is a story from the UK Telegraph about some Somali pirates that captured a Russian oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden. Some commandos from the Russian Navy took the tanker back and "unexpectedly" set the pirates free, but they apparently failed to reach shore. The Washington Post's Anne Applebaum tells the story this way. I have no idea how reliable she is.