This is illegal fishing and they know it. This boat has been doing illegal things before. Why run away with inspectors. That is for sure illegal. Nobody is spitting on anybody. Rules are Rules.
You should really try to read my post. In 1920 Spicbergen archipelago was “given” to Norway, before that it was Russian property. Same happened to Crimea and host of other regions that communist stole from Russia. Or in communist Yugoslavia where Croat dictator Tito took Serbian lands in Bosnia, Kosovo and Vojvodina and gave it to the non-Serbs. Serbs (and Russians) were too Orthodox, monarchist and anti-communist so they had to be punished.
“Rules are Rules” indeed, unless Orthodox nations are concerned, when those rules can be bended, changed or broken.
According to my information that “treaty” is very clear - Russians have fishing rights in that area, so fishing was not illegal. Illegal was Norwegian attempt to forcefully stop and board that boat.
“The (Norwegian) coastguard had tried to snag the trawler's propeller with a rope to force it to stop.”
You wouldn’t like if someone tries to do this to American boat, right?