About Russian pirates. I can hear those stations daily with huge signals.
I have never contacted any and these days I do not want to hear Russian language at all.
They do the same QSO-work with each other but also play music.
They use stations names like Planeta, Kurier, Proton ,Galavok and very often they give the city-location.
They mostly operate around 1700 kHz and 3000 - 3100 kHz and these days rarely go down to 1650 kHz etc.
I have not looked the discussions in the forums here about Greek, Serbian and Russian, but I will do it later.
You would have thought that Russia would come down hard on any pirates. Perhaps they voice opinions about the government? Maybe Russia is not the authoritarian place many think it to be.