The lives of 601 Russians last week balanced on the ice. Most of them, 500 fishers for sturgeon and seal, were in the Caspian, Russia’s landlocked sea. Though they were scarcely 20 miles from land and ...

Rising oil production in Russia and the Caspian region is flowing towards Europe. But first it has to get through the Bosporus Strait. Turkey wants to see some of that oil redirected via pipeline to ...

Russian threat capabilities against Ukraine were added to on 7 April when Moscow’s Ministry of Defence announced that more than 10 amphibious landing and artillery ships are to be transferred from the ...

Armed guards have been employed to protect the newbuilding which will soon begin shipping out of a Lamprell shipyard in the United Arab Emirates on a journey taking in the treacherous Gulf of Aden.

In May 2018, the U.S. withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal. Throughout 2019, economic sanctions were imposed as part of President Trump’s “maximum pressure campaign,” further escalating tensions in the ...

KASPIANSK /Dagestan/, October 30. /TASS/. A potential tunnel under the Strait of Hormuz could serve as an extension of the North-South corridor, Andrey Belyaninov, Secretary General of the World ...

In the spring of 2021, Russia conducted a sizeable military buildup along its border with Ukraine and in occupied Crimea. Most of these deployments were spontaneous and unrelated to any scheduled ...

Karl Bushby's journey has been remarkable. He set off from Chile in 1988, and since then had walked across all America, Asia, swam for about 186 miles across the Caspian Sea, bravehearted ice lumps ...