BAKU (Reuters) -Rapid falls in the level of the Caspian Sea are affecting ports and oil shipments and threatening to inflict catastrophic damage on sturgeon and seal populations, according to ...
Russia’s inland waterways hold strategic significance. This is due to three reasons: first, the country has a large number of ...
December 8, 2024: All is well on the Caspian Sea exit. In 2023 Russia brought in dredging equipment for a major, and overdue, dredging of the heavily used Volga-Don Canal that enables ships to get ...
The Caspian Sea, Earth’s largest enclosed inland body of water, is vanishing at a pace that has stunned scientists. Once a stable icon of Central Asia’s geography, the sea is now shrinking so rapidly ...
On December 25, 2024, Azerbaijan Airlines flight 8432 crashed, killing 38 people. Preliminary reports suggest the plane was shot at by Russian air defenses, forcing it to deviate from its planned ...