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Sochi14
  • The most popular resort towns of Russia are located in this area: Anapa, Gelendzhik, Tuapse, Sochi. (visit-plus.com)
  • Sochi is the most popular resort in Russia. (visit-plus.com)
  • The distance between some settlements on the coast (direct): Anapa - Gelendzhik 70 km, Gelendzhik - Tuapse 100 km, Tuapse - Sochi 76 km, Sochi - Adler 30 km. (visit-plus.com)
  • Across the coast in the vicinity of Sochi are numerous boarding houses, hotels, holiday homes, sanatoriums. (birmiss.com)
  • In addition, the resort cities of Russia, in particular, Sochi, offer to treat the digestive and excretory system with the help of alkaline water 'Lazorevskaya' and Chvizhepsinsky Narzan from Krasnaya Polyana. (birmiss.com)
  • wrecked Russian defences in Crimea and devastated Sochi, an important port city on Russia's wester coast. (freerepublic.com)
  • Turkey's Fidan told reporters his meeting with Lavrov in Moscow was "preparation" for an upcoming meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi. (wdtn.com)
  • In Russia, in the Caucasus mountains, not far from the cities Tzelentzchik, Touapse, Novorossiysk and Sochi, there are hundreds of megalithic monuments. (beforeitsnews.com)
  • Entertainers perform in restaurants in the Russian resort city of Sochi, on the eastern coast of the Black Sea. (worldpressphoto.org)
  • Greater Sochi sprawls for some 145 kilometers along the shoreline, attracting predominantly Russian holidaymakers, who come for the sun, sea, sand, and nightlife. (worldpressphoto.org)
  • The two leaders spoke in the Black Sea coast resort of Sochi to discuss their "next mutual steps", according to the Kremlin. (sky.com)
  • Sochi virus was recently identified as a new hantavirus genotype carried by the Black Sea field mouse, Apodemus ponticus . (cdc.gov)
  • We evaluated 62 patients in Russia with Sochi virus infection. (cdc.gov)
  • Recently we described a new hantavirus, Sochi virus, from the administrative region Krasnodar (including the city of Sochi), southern European Russia, which was isolated in cell culture from a Black Sea field mouse ( Apodemus ponticus ) and a patient with fulminant hantavirus disease who died of shock and combined kidney and lung failure ( 2 - 4 ). (cdc.gov)
Fleet13
  • Ukraine carried out a fiery missile strike Friday on the main headquarters of Russia's Black Sea Fleet and one serviceman was missing, the Russian Defense Ministry said. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • The Russian ship Samum of the Black Sea Fleet, pictured in 2019. (businessinsider.com)
  • The attack took place off the coast of occupied Crimea, where Russia's Black Sea Fleet is based. (businessinsider.com)
  • The attack on the Samum missile ship took place on Thursday off Sevastopol Bay amid ongoing Ukrainian attacks on Russia's Black Sea Fleet. (businessinsider.com)
  • Russia has been using its fleet to impose a de facto blockade on Ukraine's food exports by blocking the country's ports. (businessinsider.com)
  • The frigate in the background was the flagship of Ukraine's Black Sea fleet. (wlrn.org)
  • Earlier, Timoshenko continuously said that "the government would not let the tensions in the Crimea escalate, including the issue of Russia's Black Sea Fleet based in the region. (rt.com)
  • The Ministry of Defence has warned that Russia's prized Black Sea Fleet is struggling to contend with threats to Ukraine's southern flank. (yahoo.com)
  • In their morning briefing the UK ministry said: "In recent weeks, the Naval Aviation component of Russia's Black Sea Fleet has assumed a particularly important role in the Fleet's operations as it struggles to deal with concurrent threats on the southern flank of the Ukraine war. (yahoo.com)
  • Both powers assumed Russia would submit after the destruction of Sevastopol, the fleet, and possibly some Baltic ports. (rusi.org)
  • Commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet Vice-Admiral Viktor Sokolov (C) attends a ceremony marking 240th anniversary of Russia's Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, Crimea, on May 13, 2023. (alarabiya.net)
  • Admiral Viktor Sokolov, the commander of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, was shown on Russian state television on Tuesday attending a defense leaders' meeting remotely, a day after Ukrainian special forces said they had killed him. (alarabiya.net)
  • Ukraine's special forces said on Monday that Sokolov had been killed along with 33 other officers in a missile attack last week on the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea Fleet in the port of Sevastopol in Crimea, seized from Ukraine in 2014. (alarabiya.net)
Crimea11
  • Anapa is located in the northwestern part of the Black Sea coast of Russia, near the Crimea and the Sea of Azov. (visit-plus.com)
  • In 2014 Russia covertly invaded and illegally annexed Crimea, a move that was denounced by the international community. (britannica.com)
  • Ukraine used an experimental sea drone to strike and damage a Russian missile ship off the coast of occupied Crimea, Ukrainian sources claim. (businessinsider.com)
  • Ukraine has long maintained that its goal is to take back the peninsula of Crimea, which was occupied by Russia in 2014. (businessinsider.com)
  • It seems hard to believe now, but the Russian and Ukrainian naval fleets operated side-by-side in Crimea's port of Sevastopol from the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 until Russia seized all of Crimea in 2014. (wlrn.org)
  • It grows in Russia on the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus, Crimea [12]. (scirp.org)
  • If you plan to go from Ucraine to Crimea (which is now part of Russia) or vicea versa, forget it. (cruisersforum.com)
  • Sorry to have to point out that Crimea is part of Ukraine that is occupied by Russia. (cruisersforum.com)
  • The two ports are on the Sea of Azov, a body of water that, after the 2014 annexation of Crimea, the Kremlin would like to turn into a Russian lake. (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • It wants to build a 500 megawatt wind farm-right in the path of where Russia threatened to open a "land bridge" from Donetsk to Crimea. (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • A Russian couple was killed and their 14-year-old daughter wounded on Monday in what Moscow said was a Ukrainian attack that knocked out the road part of the bridge linking Russia to Crimea, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014. (newsmax.com)
Ukraine28
  • Negotiations between Russia and Ukraine were taking place on Monday after Russia's attacks moved closer to NATO member Poland over the weekend. (nbcnews.com)
  • Talks between Ukraine and Russia took place via video link before a "technical pause" was called until Tuesday, according to a senior adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy who is leading Kyiv's delegation. (nbcnews.com)
  • Russia's navy has set up a "distant blockade" of Ukraine from the Black Sea, cutting off the country in parts of the south, according to Britain's ministry of defense. (nbcnews.com)
  • UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United Nations chief sent Russia a new proposal aimed at getting its grain and fertilizer to global markets in hopes of reviving the deal that allowed Ukraine to ship almost 33,000 tons of grain at a time of growing global hunger. (wdtn.com)
  • The United Nations and Turkey brokered the deal in July 2022 that allowed Ukraine to ship grain and other foodstuffs from three Black Sea ports. (wdtn.com)
  • It repeatedly complained that the Ukraine deal largely benefitted richer nations, and that Russia still had difficulties obtaining financing, insurance and shipping for its fertilizer and grain shipments. (wdtn.com)
  • Ukraine, country located in eastern Europe, the second largest on the continent after Russia. (britannica.com)
  • Finland - which shares a land border with Russia - and Sweden applied for membership in the 30-nation alliance, abandoning decades of foreign policy neutrality in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (cnn.com)
  • The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) used an experimental Sea Baby drone in the attack, which can operate in stormy conditions and evade detection behind high waves, Ukrainian media outlet New Voice reported. (businessinsider.com)
  • Russia's dominance of the northern Black Sea means Moscow can keep Ukraine from exporting its abundant grain - and that's exactly what it's been doing since July 17. (wlrn.org)
  • But Ukraine chose to scuttle the warship last year, rather than risk it being captured by Russia when Moscow launched a full-scale invasion. (wlrn.org)
  • But when Russia invaded last year, Ukraine intentionally scuttled its last major warship, a frigate, rather than risk it being captured by Russia. (wlrn.org)
  • However, U.S. officials said anew that Russia's buildup of offensive air, land and sea firepower near Ukraine has reached the point where it could invade on short notice. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • Mykolaiv is a key target in Russia`s apparent goal of taking control of Ukraine`s entire Black Sea coast. (msnbc.com)
  • Russia launched a military attack against Ukraine on Thursday. (rt.com)
  • FILE - A security officer stands next to the ship Navi-Star which sits full of grain since Russia's invasion of Ukraine began five months ago as it waits to sail from the Odesa Sea Port, in Odesa, Ukraine, July 29, 2022. (ozarksfirst.com)
  • Ukraine is steadily exporting grains from its Black Sea ports under a wartime deal brokered last month, but the agreement has also proven helpful to Russian farmers and the country's cornerstone agriculture industry. (ozarksfirst.com)
  • With much fanfare, ship after ship loaded with grain has sailed from Ukraine after being stuck in the country's Black Sea ports for nearly six months. (ozarksfirst.com)
  • According to a September 19 scorecard by the Belfer Center at Harvard's Kennedy School, Russia has gained 35 sq miles (91 sq km) from Ukraine in the past month while Ukrainian forces have taken 16 sq miles (41 sq km) from Russian forces. (alarabiya.net)
  • It is not a war for freedom and democracy, but an imperialist war over whether Ukraine will remain a semi-colony of the US and EU or become a semi-colony of Russia again. (indymedia.org)
  • The most important thing is to end the war as soon as possible, even if that means Ukraine ceding control of territory to Russia. (indymedia.org)
  • Only about six months later, war broke out between Russia and Ukraine. (indymedia.org)
  • At the core of a sustainable compromise between Russia, Ukraine and the US could be a guarantee of Ukraine's full sovereignty and military neutrality. (indymedia.org)
  • Although belonging to Ukraine it remains Russia's Black Sea naval base. (cornucopia.net)
  • In Ukraine, China carefully avoids public conflict with its "strategic partner," Russia. (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • At the same time, China introduces to Ukraine a welcome geopolitical diversification from the old choice, Russia or Europe. (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • Some analysts fear that China eventually will form an unholy partnership with Russia, dragging Ukraine back under Russia-oriented authoritarian rule. (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • In Ukraine, one French banker in Kyiv argues, China may be happy to have Russia tied up in an expensive, pointless war on its Western end. (atlanticcouncil.org)
Ukrainian12
  • The Ukrainian source characterized the route as "the only major railroad connection between Russia and China. (freerepublic.com)
  • Russia gained the entire western Ukrainian Black Sea coast in the Treaty of Jassy (1792). (britannica.com)
  • But he said that Russia was in "no hurry" in his first remarks on the Ukrainian counteroffensive. (cnn.com)
  • Ukrainian sources say they used an experimental drone called Sea Baby to strike a Russian missile ship. (businessinsider.com)
  • Ukrainian sources confirmed the attack to Reuters and Ukrainian media , claiming that a sea drone had hit the rear of the ship and caused "significant damage. (businessinsider.com)
  • The challenges range from guarding against Russian sea-launched missile strikes, to ensuring the safe passage of Ukrainian wheat and corn to world markets. (wlrn.org)
  • In the Black Sea city of Mykolaiv, just yesterday, Ukrainian military claim to recapture their port and pushed Russian forces out of the city. (msnbc.com)
  • Russia`s proposed new fires in five Ukrainian cities tomorrow to facilitate evacuations, but the only evacuation corridor`s it is proposing would leave refugees to Russia and its ally Belarus, which is obviously not where most Russians, most Ukrainians fleeing Russian bombs want to go. (msnbc.com)
  • The Russian military has taken prisoner 82 Ukrainian troops who were deployed on Snake Island in the Black Sea, the Russian defense ministry claimed on Friday. (rt.com)
  • President Vladimir Putin claimed that Russia needed to demilitarize the country to put an end to NATO's creeping expansion into its territory and to stop Ukrainian attacks on the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Lugansk. (rt.com)
  • Two deals that the U.N. and Turkey brokered last month to unblock food supplies depend on each other: one protects ships exporting Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea and the other assures Russia that its food and fertilizer won't face sanctions, safeguarding one of the pillars of its economy and helping ease concerns from insurers and banks. (ozarksfirst.com)
  • The ministry said it had struck Odesa, where the Ukrainian navy has a facility, and Mykolaiv on Ukraine's Black Sea coast. (newsmax.com)
Vladimir Putin1
  • Syrian President Bashar al Assad has had talks in Russia with Vladimir Putin. (sky.com)
Azov3
  • The republic is coterminous with the Crimean Peninsula, lying between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. (britannica.com)
  • A genuine peace treaty would require agreement on a host of thorny issues (e.g., borders, reconstruction assistance, prisoner repatriation, accountability for war crimes, security guarantees, transit arrangements for the Black Sea and Sea of Azov, etc. (indymedia.org)
  • Not only is a Chinese company expected to upgrade Ukraine's two commercial ports on the Sea of Azov, but another Chinese company wants to capitalize on the wind coming off the Azov. (atlanticcouncil.org)
Russia's1
  • However, Russia's navy still dominates the Black Sea off Ukraine's southern coast. (wlrn.org)
Kyiv1
  • Musk owns SpaceX , which provides Starlink satellite communication services that are vital for Ukraine's defence effort, but his statements have sometimes angered Kyiv since the full-scale invasion launched by Russia in February last year. (yahoo.com)
Moscow1
Ukraine's7
  • Russia seized or destroyed much of Ukraine's navy, but the country is trying to rebuild its sea forces. (wlrn.org)
  • First, Russia wiped out Ukraine's navy. (wlrn.org)
  • Now, Russia is blocking Ukraine's critical grain exports on civilian ships in the Black Sea. (wlrn.org)
  • Russia seized or destroyed much of Ukraine's navy when it first invaded in 2014. (wlrn.org)
  • Since Sevastopol was no longer an option, the training took place in Odesa, Ukraine's other big Black Sea port. (wlrn.org)
  • It is located some 35 kilometers off the coast of Ukraine's Odessa region, close to the border with Romania. (rt.com)
  • On Ukraine's Black Sea coast, the most active foreign actor is not Russia. (atlanticcouncil.org)
17831
  • The king agreed to a treaty with Catherine the Great in 1783 to be protected, as an Orthodox country, by Russia from the Muslim powers. (angelfire.com)
Abkhazia4
  • Adler is located in the southeastern part of the Black Sea coast of Russia, near the border with Abkhazia. (visit-plus.com)
  • He said he wanted to reach Russia and Abkhazia, Georgia, on the Black Sea's eastern coast, then return to Norway by bicycle. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • These dolmens cover the Western Caucasus on both sides of the mountain ridge, in an area of approximately 12.000 square kilometers of Russia and Abkhazia. (beforeitsnews.com)
  • And Russia still occupies Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which together make up 20 percent of Georgia's territory. (globalatlanta.com)
Caucasus2
  • The climate of the region is greatly affected by the Caucasus Mountains (mountains protect from cold northern winds) and the sea (the sea make the air a few cools in summer and warm in the winter). (visit-plus.com)
  • South Ossetians, a minority Iranic-speaking group of about 60,000, are agitating for independence from Georgia (declared independence in 1993) and possibly for union with North Ossetia, the other side of the Caucasus in Russia (assisted by Russia). (angelfire.com)
Kilometers4
  • Length of the Russian Black Sea coast area in Krasnodar region is about 400 kilometers (straight-line distance of about 350 kilometers). (visit-plus.com)
  • Distance from the village of Krasnaya Polyana to coast is about 40 kilometers, altitude 538 meters. (visit-plus.com)
  • Krasnodar is a city and the administrative center of Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the Kuban River about 148 kilometers (92 mi) northeast of the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. (beforeitsnews.com)
  • China has showed interest in atolls and shoals that are "closer and closer" to the coast of the Philippines, with the nearest atoll about 60 nautical miles (111 kilometers) away, Marcos said. (fox59.com)
Country's1
  • Russia has been a crucial ally of the Syrian regime throughout the Middle Eastern country's seven-year civil. (sky.com)
Drones1
  • The Sea Baby drones are a "unique invention" of the SBU, its head Vasyl Maliuk previously said, and were used to attack the Crimean Bridge last month. (businessinsider.com)
Naval2
  • But what can you do about it when you don't have a significant naval presence in the Black Sea? (wlrn.org)
  • Russia is attempting to use naval air power to project force over the northwestern Black Sea. (yahoo.com)
Food and fertilizer1
  • A separate memorandum between the U.N. and Russia pledged to overcome obstacles to Moscow's shipment of food and fertilizer to world markets. (wdtn.com)
Conflict1
  • Graham's plan stressed economy, to allow Britain to simultaneously carry out the conflict with Russia while sustaining the long-term battleship arms race with France. (rusi.org)
Krasnodar1
  • A large number of tourists from many cities of Russia come to the resorts of Krasnodar Region (and neighboring regions). (visit-plus.com)
Crimean War1
Ottoman Empire1
  • Russo-Turkish Wars , Series of wars fought between Russia and the Ottoman Empire from the 17th to the 19th century. (britannica.com)
Turkey5
Anapa1
Russian9
  • The Black Sea coast is the most popular resort region among Russian residents. (visit-plus.com)
  • Russian Black Sea coast resorts are located at approximately the same latitude and in a similar climate zone, as the most popular resorts of the French Riviera. (visit-plus.com)
  • Russian part of the Black Sea coast is located in areas of the Mediterranean and subtropical climates. (visit-plus.com)
  • In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, the Democratic Republic of Georgia declared independence (26 May 1918) under the Mensheviks, while the Bolsheviks took control of Russia. (wikipedia.org)
  • In Catherine II 's reign the first major Russo-Turkish war (1768-74) pushed Russian borders south and gave Russia a vague right of protection over the Ottoman sultan's Christian subjects. (britannica.com)
  • From Photo Nature section of our site you can also download thousands images of fungi, lichens, plants and animals, made by professional Russian field biologists and geographers during their expeditions all over the Russia and former USSR republics. (ecosystema.ru)
  • The idea that NATO membership for Georgia would provoke Russia is a part of Russian propaganda. (globalatlanta.com)
  • The primarily Russian-inhabited and speaking peninsula with the same name is located on the northern coast of the Black Sea. (rt.com)
  • The armed forces of the Russian Federation carried out a mass retaliatory strike overnight using precision sea-based weapons against facilities where terrorist acts against the Russian Federation were being prepared using uncrewed boats,' the ministry said in a statement. (newsmax.com)
Gulf Coast3
  • It's usually found in Gulf Coast states, and Central and South America. (kxan.com)
  • He said he believes the bird may spend several weeks in Green Bay before traveling around the Midwest and eventually returning to the Gulf Coast. (kxan.com)
  • Furthermore, a phylogeny of ctxAB and tcpA sequences revealed that the sequences from the NAG strain also formed a monophyletic cluster with toxigenic U.S. Gulf Coast (USGC) strains (O1, O75, and O141) that were recovered from vibriosis cases associated with exposures to Gulf Coast waters. (cdc.gov)
Full-scale invasion1
  • Russia largely finished off what was left at the start of its full-scale invasion last year. (wlrn.org)
Baltic1
  • Kaliningrad faces the Baltic sea and is bordered by Lithuania and Poland. (cbssports.com)
Fought1
  • The Anglo-French coalition that fought Russia was an unlikely combination. (rusi.org)
Caucasian2
  • Black Sea coast, Caucasian Mineral Waters are famous for their newest modern sanatoriums, boarding houses, hydropathic institutions. (birmiss.com)
  • The Abkhazians seem to have the support of Russia and other Caucasian minority peoples. (angelfire.com)
City3
  • The best sea resorts of Georgia are located in the city of Batumi. (visit-plus.com)
  • In the city of Adler is a major international airport that receives flights from many cities of Russia. (visit-plus.com)
  • Yekaterinburg is the fourth-largest city, located in central Russia right where Europe and Asia meet. (cbssports.com)
Philippine1
  • Last month, a Chinese coast guard ship and an accompanying vessel rammed a Philippine coast guard ship and a military-run supply boat near the contested shoal, according to Philippine officials. (fox59.com)
Region1
  • You have to invest time with the banks to make them understand this whole thing because the authority says, 'Go ahead there's no sanction,' but the banks self-sanction," said Gaurav Srivastava, whose company Harvest Commodities buys, ships and sells grains from the Black Sea region. (ozarksfirst.com)
NATO3
  • As Russia remains a headline issue at the NATO alliance summit this week, Georgia finds itself on the outside looking in. (globalatlanta.com)
  • Russia sees itself as existentially threatened - regardless of whether NATO and the West ever had and have in mind to attack Russia. (indymedia.org)
  • What is happening right now because of Russia has not changed my opinion about NATO there. (indymedia.org)
Waves1
  • On the other hand, the very short and steepy waves of Black sea is famous and the Turkish side offers very little shelter if you need one. (cruisersforum.com)
Tourists3
  • The Black Sea coast in Bulgaria is popular with tourists from European countries. (visit-plus.com)
  • Unfortunately, there are many beaches that belong to the hotels and access of tourists is closed or possible for money on the territory of the coast. (visit-plus.com)
  • The Black Sea, on the coast of which it is located, attracts tourists from around the world. (birmiss.com)
Strategic1
  • This reflected a very limited understanding of Russia and its strategic history. (rusi.org)
Resort2
  • The resort cities of Russia in the twentieth century began to develop with new force. (birmiss.com)
  • As you can see, the resort cities of Russia, located on the Black Sea coast, are suitable not only for simple rest, but also for healing and rejuvenation of the body. (birmiss.com)
Trains1
World3
  • In the town of Ünye, Ordu , on Turkey's northern Black Sea coast, Jonathan Dunnett told Anadolu Agency he started his trip in 2017 to deliver a message of peace and friendship to the whole world. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • To think that Russia nearly joined the civilised world. (abovetopsecret.com)
  • The 2018 FIFA World Cup kicked off on June 14, and for next month or so, the soccer world has taken over Russia. (cbssports.com)
China9
  • So how is Russia asking China for help any cause for concern? (abovetopsecret.com)
  • Marcos said the situation in the South China Sea "has become more dire" as China expands its presence in an area where multiple nations have competing territorial claims. (fox59.com)
  • His trip comes at a time when the U.S. and the Philippines have been deepening their long-standing alliance in a shift after Marcos' predecessor, Rodrigo Duterte, nurtured cozy ties with China and Russia. (fox59.com)
  • China claims virtually the entire South China Sea as its own territory and refuses to acknowledge claims from the Philippines and four other other governments to some or all of the waterway. (fox59.com)
  • Marcos said features in the South China Sea are "slowly being turned into bases. (fox59.com)
  • He told reporters afterward that they agreed the challenges in the South China Sea "should not be the defining element" of their relationship. (fox59.com)
  • Marcos said the two leaders tried to come up with mechanisms to lower tensions in the South China Sea. (fox59.com)
  • Wake up, Uncle Sam: Is the US military ready to take on Russia and China? (rt.com)
  • But China's rise seems to be helping China, not Russia. (atlanticcouncil.org)
South1
  • Russia intervened and a state of emergency was declared in South Ossetia. (wikipedia.org)
Ministry1
  • They "laid down arms" and will be set free after pledging not to take part in military action against Russia, ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said. (rt.com)
Azerbaijan1
  • Aiming for the world's richest consumer market, this route would go from Kazakhstan, across the Caspian to Azerbaijan, on to Georgia, and then across the Black Sea to Chornomorsk. (atlanticcouncil.org)
Georgia2
  • We advise you to take a closer look at Georgia too, if you intend to spend a vacation on the Black Sea coast. (visit-plus.com)
  • Georgia is trying to hold onto its unique, 3,000-year-old cultural identity and carve out an international niche for itself in the shadow of its much larger neighbor and former occupier, Russia, which still looms large in its security situation 25 years after independence from the Soviet Union. (globalatlanta.com)
Climate1
  • By itself, the climate is curative because of the unique combination of saline evaporation of the Black Sea and mountain air. (birmiss.com)
Port1
  • Russia waged the early wars (1676-81, 1686, 1689) in a fruitless attempt to establish a warm-water port on the Black Sea. (britannica.com)
Control1
  • Russia does control the area so you will deal with them from the sea. (cruisersforum.com)
Americans1
  • US President Joe Biden met Friday with the families of Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan, two Americans jailed in Russia. (cnn.com)