Turkmens launch $1.5 bln resort

The president of this normally reclusive nation staged lavish ceremonies for foreign guests and media Monday to launch a new $1.5 billion resort on the desert shore of the Caspian Sea in a city named after his eccentric and autocratic predecessor.

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Azerbaijan moves to scrap presidential term limits

Azerbaijan's parliament voted Friday to scrap presidential term limits, potentially prolonging a dynasty that has led the oil-rich Caspian Sea country for 15 years.

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EU to push for Caspian gas line

The European Union will push harder for a pipeline to carry natural gas from the Caspian Sea region to Europe while bypassing Russia, a senior EU diplomat said Wednesday.

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Azeris, Kazakhs sign deal on oil transportation

Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan agreed Friday to set up an oil transport system across the Caspian Sea that will help get Central Asia's massive energy reserves to western markets and circumvent Russian territory.

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No Deal at Caspian Summit on Sharing Sea

Leaders of the five nations around the Caspian Sea failed to agree Tuesday on how to divide the inland water body, a prize at the center of the global struggle for access to oil and natural gas.

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Putin Warns US Against Attacking Iran

Russian leader Vladimir Putin met his Iranian counterpart Tuesday and implicitly warned the U.S. not to use a former Soviet republic to stage an attack on Iran. He also said countries bordering the Caspian Sea must jointly back any oil pipeline projects in the region.

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Troubled Caspian Waters Await Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Tehran this week will include participation in a summit of Caspian Sea leaders. Iran, Russia and three former Soviet republics along its shores have been locked in tough talks on dividing the resources of the vast inland sea.

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Possible Seas Discovered on Saturn Moon

Scientists have discovered what appear to be sea-size bodies of liquid, probably methane or ethane, on the surface of Saturn's largest moon, including one about as big as Montana.

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When waging war "by way of deception," the motto of the Israeli Mossad, well-timed crises play a critical agenda-setting role by displacing facts with what a target population can be deceived to believe.

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For the first time, Russia and Iran will hold a joint naval maneuver in the Caspian Sea, The Iranian Mehr News Agency reported Wednesday. World According to the report, the maneuver will include 30 Russian and Iranian ships, as well as helicopters.

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Oil and naturl gas of the Caspian states seems to be of strategic significance for the West, Richard Morningstar, the US special envoy for Eurasian energy issues said

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Russia continues to occupy the former Soviet state of Georgia, despite agreeing to a cease-fire last week.

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Get your hand off that red button Bush! they have stood down.

Putin's puppet Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered a halt to military action in Georgia. Your wooing in Georgia, help start all this mess and Putin has been waiting to pounce on Georgia so it could make some fresh deals there over it oil and gas pipes.

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Discussions about a new pipeline began in the late 1990s with Russia first insisting that it should pass through Russian territory, then declining to participate at all. Russia's unreliable business environment was also seen as a problem.

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What would happen in America if Iran detonated a crude nuclear weapon 40 kilometers above the continent? What are the affects of an electromagnetic pulse attack? What would you do if you knew the plans are on the drawing board, and only one element is missing from their fulfill …

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India may be a relative latecomer in the rush for Caspian hydrocarbon riches, but its booming economy and stable democratic traditions make it an attractive market for Central Asian energy producers, particularly Kazakhstan.

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By Michael Klare Text taken directly from the article

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With the world's attention focused on energy problems, important developments have emerged in the Tehran meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Caspian Sea-area leaders.

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The Caspian, one of the world's largest enclosed bodies of water, has become the center of a new power game involving the United States and Russia as well as its bordering countries, including Iran, over who should control the vast energy reserves under its depths.

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We would Iran and Russia be in bed together? This is really, really scary and much to early for Halloween.

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What a neat story in the news. I'm glad Russia is taking action to repopulate the sturgeon, and are aware that they need to follow legal fishing procedures.

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The country which was very recently mocked for being so poor is seeing its fourtunes change dramatically as the once-soviet state is vying for the EU's partnership in shipping crude oil.

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The unexpected death of Saparmurad Niyazov, the repressive ruler of Turkmenistan, could unleash a power struggle in the energy-rich Central Asian republic, analysts here said, and disrupt natural gas supplies to the Russian energy behemoth Gazprom and its increasingly nervous cus …

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Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov, president of the Russian Republic of Kalmykia and of the world chess body, is hosting this year's world championships. The match, though, threatens to break down amid a bathroom break scandal. The president, critics say, is ruining the game.

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Competing to Alter the Flow of Global Oil Supplies

Industrial development in advanced countries was blessed with an abundance of cheap oil in its early stages. Unfortunately, this developed into a long-lasting reliance on oil to meet global energy needs. Consider the following statistics:

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What is an Ekranoplan? Originally developed by Soviet scientists during the early stages of the Cold War it was originally nicknamed the Caspian Sea Monster by US and British Intelligence officers who saw them moving at high speed over the Sea on numerous occasions.

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(audio article) Azerbaijan prepares for a new boom of the oil business on the Caspian Sea. The history, environmental effects, and politics around the issue are explored.

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