Word: caspian
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...years, beluga and other caviar varieties have long been prized and, when exported, carry a commensurate price tag. In duty-free shops in Europe, top-quality sturgeon roe can sell for nearly $1,500 for 250 grams. Like oil, caviar has been black gold to Iran and its Caspian neighbors...
...five countries that border the Caspian Sea - the world's premier producers of caviar - have taken a critical step toward protecting the ancient fish that is at the center of a modern economic and environmental dispute. In launching a coordinated, science-based program for managing and preserving sturgeon stocks - replacing the competing national systems of past years - Iran and four former Soviet republics also met international requirements for proceeding with this year's caviar harvest...
...deeper than either the campaign against al-Qaida or the war in Chechnya. Georgia has been considered the strategic key to protecting Russia's southern flank since the days of the Czars. More immediately, it forms an indispensable part of the pipeline route favored by the U.S. for pumping Caspian sea oil and natural gas to Turkey without passing through either Russia or Iran...
...routing of Caspian Sea oil has been the central focus of geopolitical maneuvering in the region over the past decade. And Russia has spent much of that period trying unsuccessfully to pressure Georgia's president, former Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze, to toe Moscow's line. Moscow helped facilitate the breakaway of Abkhazia from Georgia, in order to weaken the government in Tbilisi. Georgians insist that Russia has also been behind some of the numerous coup- and assassination attempts against Shevardnadze. Certainly Moscow has made no secret of its anxiety over the Georgians' cozy relationship with...
...Abubakar: Muslims will resist until death. The U.S. attacked Afghanistan not just because they were after Osama bin Laden but because they wanted to weaken the Muslims there and to get oil from the Caspian...