A DRIED-UP sea has left fishing boats rusting away in ... location surrounded by fishing villages and even home to a Russian Naval Flotilla. A 68-million square metre behemoth, the size of Ireland ...

Now Russia has another dry dock problem in the home port of the Black Sea Fleet: Sevastopol ... military footprint on the peninsula, building up garrisons and air defenses. It's invested heavily ...

Called "Poem about the Sea ," the 1958 film is a paean to ... the Dnieper flows past in its old riverbed, with the dried-up lake bottom and Russian-controlled left bank behind it.

Once one of the world's largest inland lakes, the Aral Sea in Central Asia, has evaporated into the desert, its waters sucked dry by Soviet ... (Speaking Russian). KIPNIS: A Soviet-era documentary ...

Long stretches of Russia’s Black Sea ... shipping oil from the Black Sea. Veniamin Kondratiev, governor of Russia’s Krasnodar region, said efforts to clean up the oil spills washed ashore ...

But cooperation will still be at China’s behest. Bottled up in Black Sea near waters as a result of its war in Ukraine, Russia’s only current avenue for projecting its naval power is access to ...

OMIRSERIK IBRAGIMOV: (Through interpreter) I was born in 1993, and when I was born, the sea was already gone. KIPNIS: As a boy, Ibragimov played in abandoned boats scattered along a dried-up sea bed.