Word: caspian
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...Chechnya in 1994. Russian federal forces have been continually engaged in action against Chechen raiders eager to see the coastal province of Dagestan annexed into land-locked Chechnya. The province is of vital strategic importance to Russia, representing 70% of the nation's frontage on the oil-producing Caspian Sea. It's a nightmare war: Russian troops and Dagestani cops have also had to tackle local Islamic militants intent on independence, and ruthless criminal gangs armed with world-class weapons. But Moscow insists on enforcing one law in particular: no secession from Mother Russia, even if the union...
...very happy to see Berezovsky either behind bars or living permanently outside Russia, says a political insider, and has already put the Russian security service on Berezovsky's case. He would also like to remove Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the flashy young millionaire who runs Kalmykia, a tiny republic on the Caspian Sea. Ilyumzhinov has been accused in the Russian media of involvement in the murder four months ago of his republic's only opposition newspaper editor. In both the Berezovsky and Ilyumzhinov cases, say friends, Primakov will stay his hand until he is certain he can strike a killing blow...
...Strong-willed and energetic, Francine is the one Jacques Cousteau picked to replace him as head of the U.S.-based Cousteau Society and its French counterpart, Equipe Cousteau, which own the rights to his films, books and inventions. Under Francine, the organization has planned ambitious projects, ranging from a Caspian Sea expedition to a "Waters of Peace" program that aims to locate ecologically threatening wrecks left under the sea. "We conceived this operation as a way to carry on Cousteau's work and philosophy," she says, sitting in the Captain's former office in Paris surrounded by diving helmets, Greek...
...last fall the U.S. was pressing hard for the option it favors, a system of oil-and- gas lines starting through Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, running under the Caspian Sea to Baku, then through Georgia and Turkey to the Mediterranean. This elaborate scheme is not an easy sell. The long pipeline would cost about $4 billion to build and add up to $4 to the cost of each barrel of oil it carried. To many company executives, it seems easier to use the southern route through Iran or the northern route through Russia to the Black...
...strategic thinking, the final pipeline decision will depend heavily on costs. So U.S. officials were jubilant at Total's confession, and they got another boost last week. In a joint communique with Clinton, Niyazov affirmed that he was leaning toward an east-west gas-and-oil line under the Caspian as part of the larger system the U.S. is pushing. In October the huge consortium based in Baku is to decide which route it will support, and the Clinton Administration believes its side in this Great Game now has the momentum...