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Asia Times (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Page 1 of 2US standing in Caspian drips awayBy M K Bhadrakumar On Sunday, en route to Astana, Kazakhstan, after a "very nice trip to India", US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told reporters accompanying her, "I just wish I could have stayed longer in India". New Delhi must be one of a handful of capitals where officials from the George W Bush administration receive an expectant welcome,...
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Eurasianet (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
BY SERGEI BLAGOV Russia is pressing for the creation of a new organization, dubbed the Caspian Economic Cooperation Organization, in an apparent bid to increase its influence over the region’s vast energy resources.
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DVD Times (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
News: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian on 17th November 2008. Based on the original book by C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian sees the Pevensie children back in the wondr...
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DVD Times (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Blu-Ray News: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment have announced the UK Blu-ray Disc release of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian on 17th November 2008. Based on the original book by C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian sees the Pevensie children back in the wondr...
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IntelliBriefs (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
OXFORD ANALYTICA This weekend, government and industry representatives from all five Caspian Sea littoral states -- Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan -- will meet in Astrakhan to discuss the sea’s “economic development” prospects. The Russian Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, which will host the conference, has portrayed the event as an unprecedented step forward...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
One of the smallest seals – the Caspian - has joined a growing list of mammal species in danger of extinction.Scientists from the University of Leeds together with international partners have documented the disastrous decline of the seal - a species found only in the land-locked waters of the Caspian Sea – in a series of surveys which reveal a 90 per cent drop in numbers in the last 100...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Text of report by state-owned Kazakh TV on 3 October [Presenter] The problem of how to determine the legal status of the Caspian Sea will be resolved if a common agreement on the security of the littoral states is concluded.
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 23 hours ago
Domestic caviar offers a delicious, sustainable alternative to the diminishing supply of caviar imported from around the Caspian Sea.
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BlogHer (Free subscription) | yesterday
Caspian seals, Tasmanian devils, fishing cats, Indri lemurs, black-footed ferrets, Iberian lynxes: endangered mammals all. Mammals like us. Creatures at the top of the food chain. Think of the food chain as a pyramid, with predators at the top; then imagine the widening base of that pyramid that includes smaller creatures, vegetation, water, living space and other natural systems that support...
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Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
... to make sure that there is no inhibition on the part of either the producing countries in the Caspian or the transit or the consuming countries...to see greater hydrocarbons come through to the West."A big problem for Europe, in Gray's view, is an overdependence on supplies from Russia while investment falls."We see a reduction in the development that is taking place, a potential reduction...
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Royal Dutch Shell plc .com (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Kazakhstan is interested in acquiring stakes belonging to both Britain's BP and Oman in a key Caspian Sea pipeline pumping Kazakh crude to the Black Sea, a senior Kazakh official said on Wednesday.
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
... We are staying in and around Sumgait. A place that could have been a beautiful resort town on the Caspian but instead the Soviets built refineries and chemical factories here. It was one of the most polluted place on Earth for 20+years, with cancer and child mortality at astronomical rates but Independence brought the collapse of those industries. Its gotten much cleaner since then. Many...
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Open Democracy (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Fariba and her daughter Ava have travelled from Sari (near the Caspian coast) to Maydon Shoosh in working-class south Tehran to buy a dinner-service for Ava's wedding trousseau. They are determined to pick up a bargain today as a lot of the Shoosh shopkeepers personally import the china that is distributed and inevitably sold on at a higher price in the provinces. Nasrin Alavi is the author...
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Krimos Blog (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Caviar is just simply fish roe (eggs). Though the best comes from the Beluga Sturgeon, one can always make do with lumpfish or salmon caviars at around £5 a jar. Beluga Caviar which comes from the Caspian sea can cost at least £2000 a kilo. It is the most expensive food item in the world! Sturgeons can weigh up to two tonnes and prized more for their eggs than their meat. Caviar is usually served...
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strange maps (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Asia is hidden from sight, the visible part of the mainland dominated by two huge lakes, the Black/Caspian Sea and a super-version of Lake Baikal. Thanks to Abner Cadaver for sending in this map on a wrapper. Let`s hope this map was more off than his burger.
