page_title: River pirate
section_title: Southeast Asia along Mekong River
hierarchical_section_title: River pirate / Asia / Southeast Asia along Mekong River
caption_attribution_description: English: Ancient portray of Yermak, the first leader of the exploration of Siberia. The type of painting is called "parsúna" (from "persona" - person), it was transitional style between abstract iconographics and real paintings. Neither this, nor any other Yermak's portray (parsuna) was made in his lifetime. All the portrays were made by the descriptions from the chronicles. Another portray, and one more (click on image to enlarge). Esperanto: Jermak Timofejeviĉ, la konkeranto de Sibirj. Русский: Старинная парсуна Ермака, положившего начала присоединению Сибири к России. Парсуна была стилем, характерным для того времени, переходным между абстрактной иконописью, не пытавшейся изобразить реальные черты лица, и портретной живописью. Ни этот, ни один другой портрет Ермака не были написаны при жизни
context_page_description: A river pirate is a pirate who operates along a river. The term has been used to describe many different kinds of pirate groups who carry out riverine attacks in Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, and South America. They are usually prosecuted under national, not international law.
context_section_description: Currently, in a region known as the "Golden Triangle", river piracy, combined with illegal trafficking of heroin, poses a major international law enforcement problem.  One of the worst criminal cases involving Asian river pirates occurred on 5 October 2011, called the "Mekong River massacre".  A Chinese cargo ship hauling nine hundred thousand amphetamine pills, worth more than three million dollars, was attacked and hijacked, and thirteen crewmen were killed.  The hijackers were caught and executed by the Chinese government in 2012.
caption: Yermak Timofeyevich was a 16th-century Cossack river pirate who started the Russian conquest of Siberia, in the reign of Tsar Ivan the Terrible.
exif: {"Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop CS Windows", "Image DateTime": "2004:06:30 14:32:07", "Image ExifOffset": "164", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "302", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "5946", "EXIF ColorSpace": "Uncalibrated", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "346", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "480"}