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...Palestinian gunmen that killed 11 Israeli athletes and coaches at the 1972 Munich Games. The focus now falls on Sochi, a Black Sea resort that will host Russia's first Winter Olympics next February. Security was already a concern because of Sochi's...
...oil spills, said the situation in Komi is replicated across Russia's oil-producing regions, which stretch from the Black Sea in the southwest to the Chinese border in Russia's Far East."It is happening everywhere," Blokov said. "It's...
...multi-billion-dollar Exxon Mobil accord with a Russian state-owned oil company, Rosneft, for energy exploitation in the Arctic and Black Seas underscores the value of better cooperation to protect the environment, deal with potential oil spills, and lessen shipping...
...foreign investment has picked up and Caspian Sea crude crosses the small country of 8 million through a pipeline to the Black Sea. By the end of the year, 1 million barrels a day are expected to flow through a new 1,100-mile pipeline from Azerbaijan...
...a 17-day-old strike. In 1986, the Soviet passenger ship Admiral Nakhimov collided with a merchant vessel in the Black Sea, causing both vessels to sink; up to 448 people reportedly died.
...Russian airliner flying from Israel to Siberia was accidentally shot down by a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile over the Black Sea, killing all 78 people on board. In 2005, Americans John L. Hall and Roy J. Glauber and German Theodor W. Haensch...
...bombing of North Vietnam. In 1992, President Bush embarked on the final foreign trip of his term in office, heading to a Black Sea summit with Russian President Boris Yeltsin, with a stopover in Somalia to visit U.S. troops helping famine victims...
...cultural" performances that turned out to be stripping. Seven Russian women ages 16 to 30 from Krasnodar, near the Black Sea, apparently were recruited by dance instructor Viktor Virchenko to come to Alaska to dance in folk festivals. The women...
...by the Juneau International Folkdancers. Bulgaria is a Balkan state, bordered by Macedonia, Serbia, Greece and the Black Sea. The dance workshops were originally planned for February, but were postponed when instructor Jaap Leegwater became...
...disappear? UAS tells us faculty members Don Greenberg and Marjorie Fields spent time in August on a cruise ship in the Black Sea watching the solar eclipse. As the sky darkened, the temperature dropped, Venus and Mercury appeared and the horizon...