TEHRAN — “We are 5,000 signatures away from banning hunting Caspian Seal,” said Mohammad Darvish, an official with the Department of Environment. “As specified by the United Nations

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 Legal Status of Caspian Sea Introduction The Caspian Sea is the biggest enclosed body of water on Earth, having an even larger area than that of the American Great Lakes or that of Lake Victoria in East Africa. The length of the

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The Caspian Sea Legal Status and Regime Problems download

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Introduction   The tragedy of the commons dates all the back to Aristotle.  It is the story of humans depleting and destroying the free gifts of the world.  There have been many incidences of other commons being destroyed like, the Black Sea,

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CASPIAN SEA ISSUES Questions surrounding the legal status of the Caspian Sea have hindered--but not stopped--further development of the Sea's mineral resources. Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 led to the independence of three new countries

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Abstract With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Caspian Sea and its natural resources became a source of contention for Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan. The underlying issue is paradoxical in light of its misleading simplicity – is the

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The export of Russian black caviar has tripled in the first eleven months of last year compared with the same period of 2014, the Russian Ministry of Agriculture reported on Friday. Read more about 50 tons of black caviar, and exported 4.71

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Talking to reporters at the end of the Third Meeting of Caspian Seal littoral States Transportation Ministers in Tehran, he said that all five Caspian Sea littoral countries stressed the need for facilitating visa issuance for drivers and visitors. 'We

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Legal regime of Caspian Sea: condominium, division, or continuation of multilateral cooperation Pourshykhian A.R. Extended Abstract Introduction Before the 18th century A.D., the large enclosed today of Mazandaran sea belonged to Iran. After emerging Czarism in Russia and imposing the shameful treaty

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TBILISI – Thousands gathered in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi on Sunday to protest negotiations between the government and Russia's state-owned energy giant Gazprom. Linked arm-in-arm in a 7 kilometer-long human chain from the government’s headquarters to the Russian Embassy and chanting ‘No

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Plans for a new Euro-Caspian pipeline will solidify the west's dependence on fossil fuels and authoritarian regimes. This new documentary shows why we should stop and think. “Of course we need a different energy model,” Alberto Santoro states emphatically. “It is

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Baku, AZERTAC Azerbaijan and Iran have discussed operational conditions on the state border as Chief of the State Border Service Elchin Guliyev met with commander of the Iranian Border Guard Qasem Rezaee. They explored prospects of bilateral relations between Azerbaijan’s State Border

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Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran, which are the five Caspian littoral states, have convened in Ashkhabad, Turkmenistan from January 27-29 to talk about the legal status of the sea. The Caspian Sea has been a cause

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By Aynur Karimova Azerbaijan and Qatar, the two energy-rich countries located in the South Caucasus and the Middle East regions, respectively, have expressed intention to further develop both political and economic relations. President Ilham Aliyev believes that the two countries should raise

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On February 23, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev visited Tehran, where he met with his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani. Notably, the two presidents signed 11 memoranda of understanding (MoU) across several areas of cooperation, including energy, the economy and transport (IRNA,

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Kazakhstan is embarking on some of the most ambitious reforms in its independent history as President Nursultan Nazarbayev moves to implement his election campaign platform of five institutional reforms. President Nazarbayev announced in his inaugural speech last May that a “Plan

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Read the rest of this TXF article here: http://www.txfnews.com/News/Article/5472/KazMunaiGas-crashes-prepayment-party-to-improve-debt-profile. For more high quality trade, export & agency, and commodity finance journalism and events, visit www.txfnews.com Kazakhstan’s state-owned KazMunaiGas (KMG), an umbrella company of several subsidiaries, is closing a $3

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A meeting of the delegations led by chief of the State Border Service (SBS), Colonel General Elchin Guliyev, Deputy Director of the Russian Federation’s Federal Security Service, head of the Border Service Vladimir Kulishov

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Baku. Hafiz Heydarov – APA. Azerbaijan’s border guards detained 34 people in 22 cases who attempted to illegally cross the state border of Azerbaijan in February 2016, the State Border Service told APA on Monday.   Of them, 11 are citizens

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by Farid Rauf oglu Shafiyev The Caspian Sea is the largest closed water body in the world and is surrounded by five states--Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan. It has an area of 440,000 square kilometers with an ultra-depth of 1,025

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Iran will receive only a fraction of the $500 billion it needs to modernize its infrastructure because foreign banks are still unwilling to risk penalties from the U.S. Treasury, a major domestic construction company said. “The projects are there, they are

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Investing In Iran Is Still A Key “Uncertainty” Expect Iran will receive much less than $500-B it needs to modernize its infrastructure because foreign banks are still unwilling to risk penalties from the US Treasury. The projects are ready, but the problem

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INTERNATIONAL LEGAL STATUS OF THE CASPİAN SEA: İSSUES OF THEORY AND PRACTICE ABSTRACT Since the collapse of the USSR, long established stability of compromise around the Caspian has left its place to competition and confrontation. While the USSR and Iran were

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Hoshang Tale, Ph D (Economics), Consultant Economist & Researcher Before Peter the Great (1682- 1752) played his political games in the Caspian region, this Sea was under the sole control of Iran and was known as the Sea of Mazandaran after

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Nearly 150 political activists and rights campaigners have been released in Azerbaijan as the government of President Ilham Aliyev attempts to deflect international criticism of its human rights record. The dissidents were pardoned on Thursday as part of an amnesty

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Nowadays, a variety of means are being used in order to implement and extend the “controlled chaos” in the national economies and societies in the geopolitical struggle. The actor, who is using the tool, is maintaining the “controlled chaos” within

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While Georgia has been caught up recently in a major pipeline competition, with Russia, Azerbaijan and Iran all making a play for the action in this small, strategically located energy-transit hub, some men in the central Georgian village of Ruisi

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The Caspian Sea is an important, if often overlooked, region in regard to many of the challenges the U.S. faces around the world, such as a resurgent Russia, an emboldened Iran, wavering allies, growing China, and the rise of Islamic

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Trend: Parliament of Turkmenistan approved and adopted the bill “On Trading Activity”, according to the Turkmen government’s message issued March 28. The bill was passed at a parliament meeting, during which the MPs stressed that systematic work on creation of goods surplus

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Another provocation by pro-Armenian congressmen raises questions, though, in fact, they called for the withdrawal of Armenian armed forces from Azerbaijan’s occupied lands. The message from the ARFD Hay Dat Committees of Armenians in the US read that 54 members of

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Trend: Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the UN have discussed the situation in Afghanistan, the regional security and prospects for cooperation. The discussions were held between Yevgeniy Sysoyev, director of the executive committee of Regional Anti-terrorist Structure of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

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Ever since relations between the United States and Iran grew strained after the Iranian revolution in 1979, as a nation, we have had limited access to the Caspian Sea, the sturgeon fish that reside there, and the roe contained in

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By Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service Police and officers of other security agencies raided 11 church premises and homes of the leaders of New Life Pentecostal Church in Kazakhstan's commercial capital Almaty on 25 March, the day the Church was

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The meeting will be held at the initiative of President Ilham Aliyev. The interaction of the RF, Azerbaijan and Iran in the energy sector will be one of the talks of the foreign ministers of these countries on April 7

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Iran to start new round of regional diplomatic initiatives in coming days, Tehran’s envoy to Baku, Mohsen Pak Ayeen said. “In coming days we will witness more intensified regional diplomacy of Iran, as trilateral meetings are on the agenda,” Pak Ayeen

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The problem between Azerbaijan and Armenia must be solved immediately, Turkey’s foreign minister said on Sunday, Anadolu reported. "It (the problem along the contact line) should be solved within the framework of Azerbaijan's territorial integrity," Cavusoglu told reporters in Turkey's southern

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The next meeting of the working group on the legal status of the Caspian Sea will be held in Baku on April 5.  Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov will be represented in Azerbaijan in the meeting. 

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Speedy signing of the convention on the status of the Caspian Sea will contribute to cooperation of the littoral states, Azerbaijan's Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov said Apr.5. He made the remarks during the meeting of the special working group for

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full text of Treaty of Gulistan (1813) In the name of Almighty God With the intention to cease horror of the war and re-establish steady peace and well-wishing friendship neighborhood shared by Russia Empire and the State of Iran since the

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full text of Treaty of Turkmenchay (1828) Treaty of Turkmenchay (1828) ARTICLE I His Majesty the Russian Emperor and His Majesty the King of Iran have agreed to eternal peace, friendship and full agreement between them, their heirs to the throne,

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Marriage relationships, recognised by law, are created through registration at the state office of civil registrations (ZAGS). From 1917 a religious ceremony does not trigger legal consequences. The legal formalities required for marriage are comparatively simple. One month before registration both,

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Baku hosted the next meeting of the special working group created at the level of deputy ministers to develop a convention on a legal status of the Caspian Sea. Deputy Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan Khalaf Khalafov, addressing the session on April

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Caspian littoral countries agreed on a number of important provisions of the draft Convention, including issues related to sovereignty, the implementation of sovereign rights and jurisdiction of the parties in the Caspian Sea. This is reflected in the final Communiqué

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Baku – APA. Progress in drafting a convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea is obvious, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview to TASS.   He recalled that the prospects for signing a long-awaited

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Caspian Sea littoral states eye economic cooperation Trend: Deputy foreign ministers of the Caspian Sea littoral states have discussed expansion of economic cooperation at a meeting in Baku, an Iranian deputy foreign minister said. The Islamic Republic of Iran believes in the

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Iranian FM hopes for early completion of work on Caspian status convention Baku, Fineko/abc.az. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif voiced a hope for completion of work over the Convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea this year. "We hope we’ll

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Solve the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Before It Explodes For almost three decades, the most dangerous unresolved conflict in wider Europe has lain in the mountains of the South Caucasus, in a small territory known as Nagorno-Karabakh. In the

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OIC Summit should send signals of unity to world Hassan Rouhani has said upcoming Istanbul Summit of the OIC should communicate to the world signals of unity among the member states. President Rouhani and his Kazakh counterpart

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Iran, Kazakhstan to tighten coop. on peace, stability in Central Asia Deputy FM Rahimpour said Mon. Iran and Kazakhstan are keen on expanding cooperation on peace and stability in Central Asia, as opposed to regional meddling by certain

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Iran, Kazakhstan to build joint shipping company The Islamic Republic of Iran and Kazakhstan have agreed on the establishment of a joint shipping company. Head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) Mohammad Saeidi announced the news in

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Leader calls for ‘honest cooperation’ among Muslims to uproot terrorism Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks in a meeting with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev late on Monday. “Certain powers, particularly America, are not honest and serious in their alleged fight against

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Azerbaijan to take decisive measures towards army building Azerbaijan has set a goal to take decisive measures towards army building in 2016. Today, the Azerbaijani army is among the strongest armies in the world both for its material and technical equipment,

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Turkmenistan Diversifies Its Gas Exports To Reduce Reliance On China In January 2016, the Russian media reported that Russia’s gas giant, Gazprom, had discontinued all purchases of natural gas from Turkmenistan and was not planning to resume imports

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Blurring the Lines of Kazakhstan-Russia Relations Forecast     Kazakhstan will try to increase its independence from Russia-led alliances.     To that end, Astana will make economic and military deals with other countries and build up its domestic military capacity.

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President Aliyev meets Iranian counterpart President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has met with President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hassan Rouhani in Istanbul. The presidents hailed dynamic development of Azerbaijani-Iranian bilateral and multilateral relations and cooperation in various

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BP, its partners invest almost $60B in Azerbaijan Trend: The British BP company together with its partners on development of the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli and Shah Deniz oil and gas fields invested in Azerbaijan over $58 billion over the period of more than 20-year

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In 25th anniversary of Independency, Turkmenistan focuses on giant TAPI energy project Celebrating its 25th independence anniversary, Turkmenistan - one of major energy exporting countries - is making efforts toward creating stable systems to carry energy to world markets. It

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ECO-Caspian energy transition through gas The oil price slide since mid-2014 has severely constrained economic growth and investment in the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) & Caspian region. Despite this, regional governments nevertheless expect an improved market climate &

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  The Caspian tiger (Panthera tigris virgata), also known as the Hyrcanian tiger, the Mazandaran tiger, the Persian tiger and the Turan tiger, is an extinct tiger subspecies that had been recorded in the wild until the early 1970s, and formerly

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<header class="article-header entry-header"> The International Stage – Connected Energy </header>   Greece—and DEPA—are at the heart of major initiatives to increase energy security in Greece and hence the European Union. At the same time, Greece is securing its role

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Bilateral and three lateral agreements will not be effective until the five-sided agreement is signed - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ebrahim Rahimpour An issue of transit and provision of assistance to

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Why Iran is building up its defenses Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif underlined the necessity of developing Iran’s defense power in an article published on Wednesday. Nearly three years ago, the newly elected Iranian president called for

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Iraqi, Turkmen gas to be connected to TANAP gas pipeline The scope of the Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) will be widened when Turkmen gas from Northern Iraq is added to the mega-pipeline project. Emphasizing there is one input

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Russia Renewable Energy Report Other than large hydroelectric plants in Russia, all other forms of renewable energy accounts for less than 1% of power generation capacity. These metrics come from Russia Direct, which reports when it comes to wind, solar and

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  Energy: what was once a largely single-resource/two-state controlled industry has given way to other resources of significance. In turn, this has also given rise to other states as major players in the arena. Given the increased need for energy among

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Top German MEP joins foes of controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline The head of the largest party in the European Parliament has launched a scathing attack on the $11bn Nord Stream 2 project to pipe more Russian gas into Germany. Manfred Weber,

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Empty Gazpromises Much of the debate concerning the Nord Stream II pipeline centres on whether the project should be seen as a commercial undertaking, or as an effort to lock in Gazprom’s dominance in Europe and deal a blow to Ukraine. The

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Iran better to engage with West using structures consistent with its heritage, culture A British energy consultant warned that Western financial approach is either to attempt to gain ownership of Iran's sovereign resources or to place Iran into

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How to Judge the New Generation of Caviar Have a hankering for caviar? A decade ago, buying the black pearls was straightforward. Whether Russian or Iranian, almost all sturgeon eggs came from the Caspian Sea, and even novices knew that beluga

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says Iran and Turkmenistan need to strengthen cooperation in a bid to help establish regional peace and stability and fight terrorism, extremism and drugs trafficking. “The Islamic Republic of Iran always stands by Turkmenistan’s nation and government

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Turkmenistan and Iran seek wider cooperation TEHRAN (TCA) — Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says Iran and Turkmenistan need to strengthen cooperation in establishing regional peace and stability and fighting terrorism, extremism and drugs trafficking, Iran’s PressTV news agency reported.

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Renewable Energy Report For Russia Other than large hydroelectric plants in Russia, all other forms of renewable energy account for less than 1% of power generation capacity. Moscow-shutterstock_400971697-1-600x381These metrics come from Russia Direct, which reports when it comes to wind, solar

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No Way Out The fate of the Caspian seal may have been decided five million years ago. The smallest earless seal on Earth, Pusa caspica, is the only mammal in the Caspian Sea. It is atop the aquatic food chain in this

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Moscow to host Confab on Iran-Russia Economic Opportunities Conference on Iran-Russia Economic Opportunities will be held in Moscow as part of programs to promote cooperation between the two countries' private sectors and raise economic exchanges from the current

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The Ultimate Caviar Tasting Experience In 1991, co-founders Hossein Aimani & Amy Arrow-Aimani set out to bring the best caviar from around the world to the United States. Over the course of the last 25 years, Paramount Caviar has been guided

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Former Dagestan Deputy Prime Minister Imprisoned Over Energy Scandal At the start of May, an unusual trial concluded in Dagestan. Regional authorities charged the republic’s former deputy prime minister, Magomedgusen Nasrutdinov, with fraud and sentenced him to five years in prison

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Azerbaijan, Turkey, Georgia to Hold Joint Military Drills Azerbaijan, Turkey and Georgia will hold joint military drills, Azerbaijani Defense Minister Zakir Hasanov said Sunday. BAKU (Sputnik) — The defense ministers of Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan met in Qabala,

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Two Ends of Southern Gas Corridor Work Way towards Centre Work has been done now at either end of the Southern Gas Corridor, bringing nearer a new source of gas for the European Union. While the subsea construction vessel (SCV) Khankendi

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Iran, Russia agree to form trade arbitration, advisory center Iran and Russia agreed on forming arbitration and advisory center in trade affairs based on which both countries would be able to expand cooperation in post-JCPOA era.

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Caspian states to gather in Astana for sea status Caspian states will come together once again to discuss the legal status of the sea next summer in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana. Special Representative of the President of Russia on the delimitation and

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Baku to Allow Turkmen Gas into Tanap   Azerbaijan’s energy minister Natig Aliev says Baku and Ashgabat are negotiating a deal to enable Turkmenistan to supply gas to the European Union through the Southern Gas Corridor (SGC). “There are two pragmatic ways; first

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Azerbaijan and China: Greater integration Rapidly expanding trade and nascent investment promise stronger links between China, the world’s second largest economy, and Azerbaijan, an energy rich country on the Caspian basin. Economic ties between Azerbaijan and China play a large role

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Free trade zone to start working in Azerbaijan from 2017   Registration of residents of the free trade zone in the territory of Azerbaijan's Baku International Sea Trade Port will begin from January 2017, Taleh Ziyadov, director general of the port,

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Ashgabat believes Turkmen gas supplies will reach Europe Turkmenistan has great potential for the partnership with the European Union regarding its gas supplies to Europe, said Myratgeldi Meredov, Turkmen Minister of Oil and Gas during the International Gas Congress held

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EBRD Mulls SGC Loan EBRD Mulls SGC Loan The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is ready to support the southern gas corridor (SGC) project, its president Suma Chakrabarti told reporters in Baku May 25. Chakrabarti said the EBRD has firmly committed

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Turkmenistan concerned over Caspian Sea ecological state Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov, during his visit to Avaza tourist zone located in the east side of the Caspian Sea, mentioned that the environmental conditions of the Caspian Sea and protection of its

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Moscow to host meeting of working group on Caspian Sea’s legal status Moscow will on June 8-10 host a meeting of the ad hoc working group, tasked to develop a convention on the Caspian Sea's legal status, Hikmet Hajiyev, Azerbaijani

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Caspian Sea littoral states meeting kicks off in Moscow   The 3-day meeting of deputy foreign ministers of five Caspian Sea littoral states kicked off on Wednesday at Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow. Participants from Iran, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and

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Armenians in Dhaka   Turkey seems to have a burlesque history of genocide denial. On June 2, the German Parliament voted to recognise the 1,915 killings

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Caspian Sea Working Group Wraps Up Meeting in Moscow   The 45th meeting of the special working group of the Caspian Sea concluded in Russia’s capital of Moscow on Friday with a communiqué. Deputy foreign ministers of the five Caspian

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Russian and Turkmen military to jointly protect Caspian region   The defense ministers of Russia and Turkmenistan, Sergey Shoigu and Yaylym Berdiev, have established promising areas of bilateral cooperation in the military sphere and coordinated concrete steps to strengthen Turkmenistan’s

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Iran at the Crossroads of The Eurasian Land-Bridge May 27—With the recent historic visit to Tehran of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, for the first time in nearly 40 years, Iran has the opportunity to resume

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Caspian Sea littoral states meeting ends in Moscow   Deputy Foreign Ministers of five littoral states of Caspian Sea by signing final statement of the 45th meeting of special working group to compile context of legal regime convention of

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Iran, Russia DyFMs meet in Moscow Deputy Foreign Minister for Asia-Pacific Affairs Ebrahim Rahimpour and his Russian counterpart Igor Morgulov met in Moscow on Friday and discussed bilateral ties and regional issues. In the meeting, the two sides

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Turkey’s Caspian Sea remarks in no way mend ties with Russia: Moscow   Turkish officials’ pronouncements on the inadmissibility of making "a Russian lake" out of the Black Sea in no way promote normalization in bilateral relations, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman

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SOCAR’s Turkish Partner Wins Massive No-Bid Construction Projects   Azerbaijan's state-owned energy company, SOCAR, likes Turkey’s Tekfen Construction and Installation building company so much, it tried to buy into it in 2008. But that move was blocked by the global financial crisis that

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Zolfaqari: Security cooperation between Iran and Azerbaijan is at high level "There is no problem along Iranian-Azerbaijani border, the security cooperation between the two countries is at the high level." The due statement came from Iranian Deputy Interior Minister for Security

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An Iranian Petroleum Ministry official says Iran and Turkmenistan have envisioned a $30bn barter deal in their economic exchange. The deal allows for Iranian goods and services to be bartered for Turkmenistan’s natural gas, the official IRNA news agency quoted

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Turkish PM Binali Yildirim says legal proceedings are under way against individual allegedly responsible for killing Russian pilot   Turkey will not pay compensation to Russia over the downing of a fighter jet last year and has only expressed regret over the

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On June 29, the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan approved the bill of “Ratification of the Protocol to the Agreement on Delimitation of the Bottom of the Northern Part of the Caspian Sea to Realize Sovereign Rights of Using

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The Caspian countries have extended established a moratorium on commercial fishing of sturgeon in the Caspian sea, said on Wednesday the Ministry of ecology and natural resources of Azerbaijan.   © RIA Novosti. Boris to Babanovac fotobanka in the Khabarovsk region, seven

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TEHRAN (TCA) — An Iranian Petroleum Ministry official says Iran and Turkmenistan are pursuing a $30 billion goods-for-energy barter deal to take place in the course of the next 10 years, Iran’s PressTV news agency reported.   The deal

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Iran will import gas worth $30bn from Turkmenistan over the next ten years in exchange for engineering goods and services of the same value. Oil ministry representative Mohammad Taqi Amanpour said June 27 that the two countries had finalized $2.5bn of

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Indian expert: Iran can play important role in economic stabilization of Afghanistan, SCO states A prominent Indian expert of Afghanistan and the Central Asian affairs believes that Iran can play an important role in the economic stabilization of not only

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On 1 July 2016, the Council prolonged the economic sanctions targeting specific sectors of the  Russian economy until 31 January 2017. These measures were introduced on 31 July 2014 initially for one year in response to Russia's actions

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Parabank’s Sumgayit branch was operating outside the branch without proper permit for the activity. A structural division under Parabank JSC’s Sumgayit branch was revealed in Azerbaijan as a result of the monitoring conducted by the country’s Financial Market Supervisory

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TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Establishing direct banking relations between Tehran and Ashgabat is a priority for Iran in line with efforts to boost trade ties between the two countries, the Iranian commercial attaché to Turkmenistan said. Ramatollah Khormali said launching

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To mark the first anniversary of President Obama’s deal with Iran, the folks at the Foreign Policy Initiative have just published a comprehensive compilation of promises vs. results. It’s a devastating roundup. FPI’s Tzvi Kahn notes what Obama, Secretary of State

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ussia will send Iran another shipment of the S-300 air defense missile system as soon as Tehran is ready to pay, Russian media reported Monday. "We delivered the first batch. … On our side, [the S-300 system parts] are, in fact,

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The meeting of the foreign ministers of the Caspian littoral states to discuss the legal status of the Caspian Sea will be held July 13-14 in Astana, Kazakhstan   The meeting of the foreign ministers of the Caspian littoral states to discuss

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Iran to attend Caspian Sea littoral states meeting in Astana     Foreign ministers of five Caspian Sea littoral states including Iran will gather in the Kazakh capital for a two-day meeting on July 12-13 to discuss the legal

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Kazakhstan’s Parliament Approved Changes into Joint North Caspian Sea Usage with Russia   On June 29, the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan approved the bill of “Ratification of the Protocol to the Agreement on Delimitation of the Bottom of

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FMs of Caspian Sea Littoral States Hold Unofficial Meeting Foreign minister of the Caspian Sea littoral states held an unofficial meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Tuesday. The meeting was held at the Central Asia country’s foreign ministry with Iranian

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Zarif to attend Caspian Sea Legal Regime meeting   Foreign Minister Javad Zarif will participate in meeting of Caspian Sea littoral countries’ foreign ministers in Kazakhstan which seeks to prepare legal regime of the Sea. Zarif will head

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Moscow hopes for early signing of convention on Caspian Sea legal status   Russia's Foreign Minister has made a statement. Moscow hopes for early signing of a convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said

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F-35 Update: Software Hits Snags, Russian Radar Can Spot Fifth-Generation Jets     The controversial F-35 Lightning aircraft has been in the news several times over the last week, from problems with software tests to a Russian radar system that

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Zarif says Caspian Sea legal regime must guarantee interests of littoral states   Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Caspian Sea's legal regime should guarantee that the interests of the littoral states are met in view of

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Turki's participation at MKO gathering ‘impolitic’   Iran’s FM Zarif said participation of Saudi former spy chief Turki al-Faisal at the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) gathering in Paris shows the incompetence of such people who tie their future to

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Zarif meets Kazakh counterpart in Astana   Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif held talks with his Kazakh counterpart Erlan Idrissov on Wed. in Astana. Foreing Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who is in the Kazakh capital Astana to

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Iran “doesn’t agree” with getting only 13% share of Caspian Sea   Iran “doesn’t agree” with getting only 13 percent share of the Caspian Sea, Deputy Foreign Minister for Asia-Pacific Affairs Ebrahim Rahimpour said, Fars news agency reported July 15. He didn’t

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Energy: EU invests 263 million Euro in energy infrastructure   EU Member States agreed on a Commission proposal to invest €263 million in key trans-European energy infrastructure projects. Today EU Member States agreed on the European Commission's proposal to invest €263

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Elena Dunayeva: "Azerbaijan is a link between Russia and Iran"   The meeting of presidents of Russia, Azerbaijan and Iran will be held in the first decade of August. A senior fellow at the Center for the Study of the Middle

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Caspian Colleagues: Why Russia & Iran Have Common Interests in the Region   The Russian Foreign Ministry has indicated that it is confident that the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea can be signed

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Korean Genetics: Abstracts and Summaries Koreans are a people of northeastern Asia. Most Koreans today live on the Korean peninsula: largely in South Korea and, to a considerably lesser extent, North Korea. Evidence sugguests that most of their ancestors once lived

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Caspian Energy Grid – London Launch   The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed body of water by area and the resources to be found around in and under the Caspian Sea have been disputed for millennia. The issues

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Is the Caspian Sea Dispute Finally About to be Resolved?   Are the five states around the Caspian Sea finally going to resolve their dispute about how to divide the body of water between themselves? A number of unusually positive statements

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Caspian Energy Grid (CEG) - a Plan B for the region   Since my mother is an Azeri, Azerbaijan is literally in my blood. In fact the Islamic Republic of Iran views the people of Azerbaijan as brothers rather

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Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Turkish Leaders to Meet for Gas Talks   A high-level meeting reportedly set to take place later this year in Turkmenistan could put talk of building a natural gas pipeline across the Caspian Sea back on the agenda. The

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Turkmenistan intends to host trilateral summit on Trans-Caspian gas pipeline project   Turkmenistan plans to hold a summit of heads of Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Turkey by late 2016, where the prospects of the Trans-Caspian gas pipeline construction, in particular, will be

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Europe works on Turkmen gas import   The European Commission is following and implementing the Ashgabat declaration from 2015 on energy cooperation with Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Turkey, a source in the European Commission told Trend. Within the implementation of this declaration the

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Azerbaijan top court clears Aliyev's bid to extend presidential term   Azerbaijan's highest court on Monday approved an initiative by President Ilham Aliyev to extend the head of state's term of office to seven years from five, a step his critics

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Chabahar: In the Grand Chessboard of India’s Geo-Strategic Calculus   by Jajati K. Pattnaik and R. P. Pradhan Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Tehran marks a new geopolitical beginning in the Persian Gulf region putting Chabahar in the

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Militarization of the Caspian Sea: A Zero-Sum Game?   On July 13, in the capital city of Astana, Kazakhstan hosted a meeting of the foreign ministers of the five Caspian littoral states. The officials gathered to discuss a draft convention on

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Iran, Russia Plan to Ink 70-Project Cooperation Deal   Iran and Russia are to sign a cooperation deal on more than 70 industrial projects, Russian media reports said on Saturday. Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said the plans were decided

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West playing with fire by curbing Aleppo liberation   While Syrian Army siege over Aleppo is completed and the biggest city of country is expected to be liberated in near future, West and some Arab states try to hinder

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Putin praises prospects of Russia-Azerbaijan transit traffic capacities   The Russian leader welcomes consolidation of Iran's and Azerbaijan's railway infrastructure under the International North-South Transport Corridor. The integration of Iranian and Azerbaijani railroads within the north-south transport corridor opens up new

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Iran would help solve Nagorno-Karabakh conflict   President Hassan Rouhani of Iran has told a press conference in Baku Iran has welcomed intermediation in Nagorno-Karabagh to help Republic of Azerbaijan solve the conflict with Armenia. President Rouhani is

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'Rouhani-Putin-Aliyev meeting to set in motion regional convergence'   Iranian Ambassador to Baku Mohsen Paka'ein asserts that the tripartite meeting between presidents of Iran, Russia, and Azerbaijan in Baku on August 8 will open a new chapter in regional

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Week Ahead Political Diary: Erdogan to meet Putin for talks     Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian president Vladimir Putin will hold talks

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Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan recognize importance of convention on status of Caspian Sea   Russia, Iran and Azerbaijan recognize the importance of the early adoption of convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea, according to a draft declaration

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Iran, Azerbaijan ink 6 MoUs in Baku The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan signed six memoranda of understanding in Baku on Sun. to further deepen ties between the two countries. In the ceremony

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Baku Summit to Enrich Persian Gulf With Caspian Sea Resources   Leaders of Russia, Iran and Azerbaijan met in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku to intensify their cooperation in the energy field. Political expert Sajjad Tayeri said

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Oil and Gas Drilling Threatens Little-Known but Unique Seal   The 20th century was not kind to the Caspian seal. About 100 years ago, an estimated 1 million of these four-foot-long marine mammals swam the waters of the Caspian Sea, the world’s

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'Rouhani-Putin-Aliyev meeting to set in motion regional convergence'   Iranian Ambassador to Baku Mohsen Paka'ein asserts that the tripartite meeting between presidents of Iran, Russia, and Azerbaijan in Baku on August 8 will open a new chapter in regional

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<header class="article-header entry-header"> Kazakhstan seeks International Arbitration ruling over investment in Romania </header>   KMGI Deputy Director General Azamat Zhangulov talks to New Europe in an interview about his company’s investment in the Balkans region Nine years ago, in the Balkans,

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August 12 marks Day of Caspian Sea   August 12 marks the Day of the Caspian Sea, the largest land-locked body of water on earth. The Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea, also known as

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All Caviar Is Expensive—but It’s Not All Sustainable There’s a full moon rising tomorrow, Aug. 18, and it has a name. Known as the Sturgeon Moon, it marks the time when Native American tribes harvested those meaty, plentiful fish from

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Russia-Azerbaijan-Iran: New format for long-term partnership   On August 8, 2016 a trilateral meeting between the presidents of Russia, Azerbaijan and Iran took place in Baku. A joint declaration was adopted to underline and affirm intent

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Azerbaijani Navy exercises live-fire   The Azerbaijani Navy have held another stage of command and staff exercise with live-firing, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported on August 24. The exercises are held on the instruction of Azerbaijani President, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed

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Turkmenistan, Germany to sign some documents   Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov intends to pay a working visit to Germany August 29-30, the Turkmen government said Aug. 27. According to the message, several documents are planned to be signed as part of the

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Turkmenistan seeks to deliver its hydrocarbons to West   Turkmenistan, an energy-rich Central Asian nation with abundant hydrocarbon reserves, is keen to diversify the routes of its gas export. Being the sixth in the world for the volume of natural gas reserves, the

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Bumi Q2 earnings decline   Malaysian FPSO player Bumi Armada reported 12.2% lower revenue of RM402.9 million and net loss of RM518.3 million in Q2 2016 due to lower income from its floating production storage and offloading (FPSO), and floating gas

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Is Putin the new Stalin? ‘Tom’ thinks Vladimir Putin is the new Josef Stalin. As he’s never been to Russia, his views surely reflect the power of a Western media narrative which continuously demonizes the Russian President. Last week, an optician from

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 Summit Signals Russia’s New Strategy Towards Iran Faced with recent strains in the relationship, Moscow has expanded its dialogue with Tehran to issues beyond the Syrian conflict. Hassan Rouhani, Ilham Aliyev and Vladimir Putin meet in Baku. In early August, Russian

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Turkmenistan discussing Caspian Sea agreements   Another meeting of the Turkmen Interdepartmental Commission on the Caspian Sea was held in Ashgabat, the Turkmen government said Sept. 6. According to the message, the draft agreements on trade and economic cooperation among the Caspian-littoral

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Artificial fish lakes of Azerbaijan under liquidation   State Committee on real estate matters takes measures to ensure efficient use of land in Azerbaijan. State Committee on real estate matters informed that on 9 September raids and monitoring for creation of artificial

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Former Navy Commander: US is not weak, but Russia and Iran provoke us to get Trump elected   In an opinion piece in the US Naval Institute's News Blog, Retired US Navy Commander Daniel Dolan asserts that Russia and Iran harass and

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Pentagon’s Plan to Spy on Russia, Iran is a 'Signal of a Decline in US Hegemony'   The United States Congress Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa will consider the Iran-Russia Cooperation Reporting Act. Sponsor of the bill Republican Mike Pompeo wants

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Gas Pipelines Threaten EU Climate Goals, Critics Contend Civil society campaigners have accused the European Union of pouring unprecedented amounts of state aid into a huge energy project that runs counter to its own climate change objectives. Critics say funding the construction

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Turkey, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan aim to increase connectivity   Turkey needs to preserve the existing business volumes in established markets like Russia and the Middle East and expand in markets that offer relatively safer business environments such as Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, and

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E-graphic image of Caspian Sea coastal strip to be developed   Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree on October 4 on amendments to the presidential decree from January 15 2016 "On application of the Law" On Amendments to the Land

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IIKSS- The place was literally and figuratively a crossroads. It wasn’t just the point where north-south highways and rail lines met their east-west compliments but the turning point of an entire nation going in a new direction. Extending

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IIKSS- India has carved a new geopolitical beginning in the Persian Gulf region putting Chabahar in the grand canvas of India’s geo-economic calculus in the emerging Asian architecture. She has kept her American partnership vibrant while opening a

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IIKSS- Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during celebrations for Navy Day as it rains in Baltiysk Thomson Reuters In the November issue of the US Naval Institute's Proceedings magazine, Commander Daniel Thomassen of the Royal

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IIKSS - The media has become a key battleground in the current conflict between Russia and the West, with Russia’s two state-funded, U.S.-based media outlets at the forefront. RT America and Sputnik are responsible for crafting the Russian

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IIKSS - During the session of the cabinet of Ministers on November 18, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov highlighted that development of mutually beneficial partnership with neighbouring countries including with Caspian states is one of the priority directions of foreign

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IIKSS - Regular 17th session of the Mejlis of Turkmenistan of the fifth convocation was held. Number of new laws and legal and regulatory acts, developed in accordance with the priorities of the policy of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov

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IIKSS -  Russia is profoundly disappointed with the results of the 8th Review Conference of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday. The conference was held in Geneva on November 7-25.

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IIKSS - Forestalling the agenda of the session, the Leader of the Nation, addressing the participants, noted that historical event was held recently in Ashgabat, the Global Sustainable Transport Conference was organized and conducted on high level under

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IIKSS - The 21st International Exhibition and Conference "Oil and Gas of Turkmenistan 2016" will be held in Ashgabat on December 7-9, the Turkmen government said in a message. According to the message, the specialists from 40 countries

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IIKSS - A group of specialists have conducted an environmental monitoring on the underlying platform, built for an artificial island southeast of the Caspian Sea, the Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper reported. "The island is rapidly overgrown with saline grasses,

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IIKSS - Iran’s economy minister and Czech’s parliament speaker has agreed in joint investment in automaking as well as construction of railroads in Iran. Ali Tayebnia, who is staying in Prague to attend the meeting of Iran-Czech Joint

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IIKSS - Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan have not yet reached a full understanding on the Kapaz field, Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov told reporters in Baku Dec. 12. Bilateral talks and consultations on this issue are being held

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IIKSS - The Russian State Duma approved on December 21 a bill "On ratification of the Agreement on cooperation in the field of emergency prevention in the Caspian Sea". The deal was inked in September 2014 in the

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IIKSS - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is deepening its support for the private sector in Turkmenistan by arranging a US$ 1 million loan Intizar Yurek, a leading packaging company in the country. The loan

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IIKSS - Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan have held consultations on the legal status of the Caspian Sea in Baku. Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov represented Azerbaijan, while ambassador-at-large at the Foreign Ministry Zulfiya Amanzholova attended the consultations on behalf

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IIKSS - Iran’s Parliament head: Iran’s great nation fought against wrongdoings after months of internal political chaos and various trouble-makings in 2009. In his speech marking the Dey 9th demonstration (30 December, 2010), Ali Larijani said: "Iran’s

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IIKSS - A senior official in Islamic Republic of Iran Railways (RAI) Abbas Nazari said the construction phase of Astara (Iran)-Astara (Azerbaijan) railway line has been accomplished in the Azerbaijani side. Islamic Republic of Iran Railways Director General

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IIKSS - The national flag of Kazakhstan was raised in a special ceremony in front of the hall of the UN Security Council at the United Nations in New York on December 31, 2016 as the country has

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IIKSS - During the trip of the Head of Turkmen State, special attention was paid to the issues of social and economic development of the region, realization of adopted state programmes including in industrial sector and agricultural sphere.

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IIKSS- Turkmenistan will continue the active cooperation on the Caspian Sea issues on a five-party basis, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers. The Caspian Sea is surrounded by Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan

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IIKSS- A team at International Research Networks (IRN) organised an excellent Iran Business Symposium on Feb. 21+23, 2017, at the Renaissance Hotel in Amsterdam. It was attended by Switzerland, Germany, Turkey, Italy, and many other EU countries and

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IIKSS- A team at International Research Networks (IRN) organised an excellent Iran Business Symposium on Feb. 21+23, 2017, at the Renaissance Hotel in Amsterdam. It was attended by Switzerland, Germany, Turkey, Italy, and many other EU countries and

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IIKSS- In a message on the occasion of 515 years of Iran-Russia historical ties, the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that few countries in the world have as deep and historical relations. However, he said that

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IIKSS- Most components of the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea have been agreed, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after talks with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mamedyarov on Monday. "We have discussed this situation

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IIKSS- The recent visit of Azerbaijani president to Tehran as well as signing of several important documents showed an eternal friendship between the two neighboring countries. President Ilham Aliyev paid a one-day official visit to Iran on March

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IIKSS- The recent visit of Azerbaijani president to Tehran as well as signing of several important documents showed an eternal friendship between the two neighboring countries. President Ilham Aliyev paid a one-day official visit to Iran on March

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IIKSS-The International Ocean Institute (IOI) with the support of Turkmenistan’s Foreign Ministry and the State Enterprise on Caspian Sea Issues under the President of Turkmenistan is holding a seminar in Avaza, titled “Caspian Sea – sustainable development and

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IIKSS- While on an official visit to Russia, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, deputy chairman of the Federation Council Ilyas Umakhanov, Deputy Prime Minister, co-chairman of the Russia-Azerbaijan Intergovernmental Commission Dmitry

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IIKSS- Iran’s President Rouhani described relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan friendly and strategic. “Relations between the two countries has been developing since three years ago with regard to political ties and

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IIKSS- The European Commission has said that energy laws should apply to offshore as well as onshore parts of Russia's new gas pipeline, Nord Stream 2 . Maros Sefcovic, the EU energy commissioner, told a group of reporters

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IIKSS- The fourth meeting of the Caspian Expert Club, timed to the 300th anniversary of the Astrakhan province, was held in Astrakhan yesterday. The experts met to discuss historical research and media projects within the framework of the

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IIKSS- Azerbaijan’s ambitious Southern Gas Corridor project has the potential to further estrange EU-Moscow ties and trigger energy price wars. A white metal building protruded upwards in a large empty field along the coast of the Caspian Sea

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The shadow of the government of the Russians be continued (analysis of the stability index of the government of the Russian Federation) IIKSS- In the process of analyzing the survival, duration and stability of the government in

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International Institute of Khazar Studies (IIKSS) - In an interview with International Institute of Khazar Sea Studies (IIKSS) (Farsi), Bahram Amirahmadian, an assistant professor at University of Tehran and the senior fellow at IRAS, discussed some deeper layers

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Why do we insist on the continental shelf in the Caspian Sea? International Institute of Khazar Studies (IIKSS) - Countries have been looking for oil and other subsoil resources along their natural prolongation land

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The gulf of Mazandaran As a geographical, political and legal undeniable reality 1- A gulf is a large bay that is an arm of an large body of water.  2- Countries customs show us that the gulf

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TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told the visiting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Raşit Meredow in Tehran on Sat. that Iran puts no limitation on developing ties with Turkmenistan. “We see no

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The effect of determination of Special Fishery Zone and its destructive consequences on processes of delimitation of marine zones of the Caspian Sea International Institute of Khazar Studies (IIKSS) – One of the issues that has been

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Iran and Russia could start using cryptocurrencies to avoid Western sanctions, Russian news portal RBC reported yesterday, May 17. Mohammad Reza Pourebrahimi, the head of the Iranian Parliamentary Commission for Economic Affairs, referred to cryptocurrencies as a promising way

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Russia appears to be taking a long-haul approach to economic relations with Iran, one based on patience and building a solid base for cooperation. When Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif visited Moscow on May 14,

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Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev has called for global cooperation for cryptocurrency regulation, local news outlet Azernews reported May 17. Speaking at the plenary session of the Global Challenges Summit 2018, Nazarbayev stated that “most countries are actively exploring the

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Kazakh Minister of Foreign Affairs Kairat Abdrakhmanov received Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Paraguay Federico Alberto Gonzalez Franco, who arrived in Astana to participate in the Ministerial Meeting of Landlocked Developing Countries on Transport and Trade,

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The regular meeting of the Special Working Group of the Caspian littoral states on the preparation of the Convention on the legal status of the sea will be held in Astana, Kazakhstan, May 21-24, 2018, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry

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Moscow can see that all participants in the Iran nuclear deal, except the US, are determined to maintain the agreement and will continue efforts to that end, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday, TASS reports. "A

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Kommersant: Gazprom signs deal to supply gas to Austria for another 20 years Russian energy giant Gazprom and Austria’s OMV extended a contract on gas supplies until 2040 on Tuesday. Austria, the first country in Western Europe to

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The five Caspian countries are considering the issue of adopting a convention on legal status of the Caspian Sea, which will resolve many controversial issues, including the resource development, at a summit scheduled for August, Russia's State Secretary and

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The director of the International Institute of Khazar Sea Studies (IIKSS): Iran should not hurry to sign the draft of the legal regime of the Caspian Sea International Institute of Khazar Sea Studies (IIKSS) - While arguing

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The Mejlis (Parliament) of Turkmenistan of the sixth convocation has approved and adopted the draft law "On state regulation of development of agriculture”, said a message from the Turkmen government. The new law defines the legal, economic, social and

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The working meeting of experts of the Caspian states will be held in Astana on June 18-19, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tleuberdi told reporters June 12. "On June 18-19, Astana will

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The Labyrinth of the Caspian Sea Legal Regime in an interview with Tasnim Dr. Maysam Araee Daronkola, the director of the International Institute of Khazar Sea Studies (IIKSS) in an interview with Tasnim News Agency International

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Turkmenistan needs to cooperate with Azerbaijan and Turkey to enter the gas market in Europe, expert on Central Asia, Bruce Pannier, stated last week. On June 22, the Russian legal information portal published the full

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U.S. State Department’s annual Trafficking in Persons report can result in penalties limiting access to international assistance.   The annual Trafficking In Persons report analyzed 187 countries around the world and ranked them into three tiers according to

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The irreconcilable fight against bribery and corruption will be conducted, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said when addressing the participants of the expanded government meeting, the Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper wrote July 6. No one is allowed to steal people's

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Calls for protests against Kazakhstan's authoritarian ruler by an exiled opposition leader on the 20th anniversary celebrations of Astana's establishment as the Kazakh capital appear to have fallen flat. Security was tight late on July 6 at concerts marking

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Is it possible to go to the International Court of Justice to resolve the legal regime of the Caspian Sea? International Institute of Khazar Sea Studies (IIKSS) - After a period when was viewed emotionally to the

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Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the three major European signatories to a landmark nuclear deal with Iran agreed to establish trade ties with Iran independent of the US dollar. Since the United States' unilateral move in May to

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Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Bakytzhan Sagyntayev and Federal Adviser and head of the Federal Department of Economics, Education and Research of Switzerland Johann Schneider-Ammann discussed the issues of further deepening of trade and economic relations between Kazakhstan and Switzerland,

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The summit of the heads of the Caspian states will be held in August, the Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan Kairat Abdrakhmanov said, Sputnik Kazakhstan reported. It was reported earlier that, the summit of the "Caspian group of five" will

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Moscow and Tehran are expanding economic cooperation, with Russia planning multi-billion dollar investments in Iran's energy sector. The move comes as major Western firms are pulling out of Iran amid the threat of US sanctions.

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Iranian officials have repeatedly accused US of imposing illegal sanctions after pulling out from the Iran nuclear deal Iran has filed a complaint with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to "hold [the] US accountable for

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A summit of the Caspian countries will discuss strengthening security amid a chaotic wider region, said a member of Russia’s State Duma Committee on International Affairs Sergey Zheleznyak. And the foreign minister of Kazakhstan, Kairat Abdrakhmanov, said the August

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After more than 20 years of debate between the governments of the five Caspian Sea littoral states over the status of what is the world’s largest lake, its legal status and how its

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Anar Aliyev has been appointed head of the Office of Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Population of Azerbaijan, reads the order of the minister of labor and social protection of population. Anar Aliyev was born in 1980

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A researcher on Caspian Sea issues: TANAP can be a pretext for West's presence in the Caspian Sea International Institute of Khazar Sea Studies (IIKSS) – According to the Tasnim News Agency's International Group, the opening of

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The principle of non-presence of armed forces not belonging to the five Caspian countries is one of the agreed provisions of the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea, which is expected to be signed at a

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 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov plans to participate in a meeting of the top diplomats of the Caspian states scheduled to take place in Kazakhstan’s city of Aktau on August 11, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin told TASS

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August 12th, 2018 could well become a historic day for the Caspian Sea region, with states aiming to end a long-running legal disagreement involving the areas natural resources. Since the breakup of the Soviet Union in the region, Azerbaijan,

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The current situation is by no means a good time for agreement on the Caspian Sea regime/ do not repeat past mistakes International Institute of Khazar Sea Studies (IIKSS) –  Recently on Monday 16 July 2018 the

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Deputies of Iranian and Russian foreign ministries met and held talks on the latest developments in the region and across the globe, and conferred on ways to counter terrorism. The meeting was

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The Kremlin says that, after more than two decades of negotiations, leaders of the five Caspian Sea countries will sign a convention on the resource-rich sea’s legal status at a summit in the Kazakh port city of Aqtau on

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The leaders of the five Caspian Sea countries are meeting in the Kazakh port city of Aqtau to sign a convention in an effort to resolve major differences over the resource-rich body's legal status. The proposed deal

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Energy projects in the resource-rich Caspian Sea could receive a boost after five nations agreed on the legal terms of how to share access after 20 years of negotiations. Despite being one of the world's oldest hydrocarbons producing regions,

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Iran’s 50% share of Caspian Sea cannot be legally verified: expert International Institute of Khazar Sea Studies (IIKSS) – The director of the International Institute of Khazar Sea Studies (IIKSS) told Mehr News Agency that Iran’s 50% share of Caspian

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Kazakhstan will be able to state about the completion of the legal formalities for the boundaries, sovereign rights for subsoil use in the Caspian Sea after the location of the junction of the lines of delimitation of the sea-bed

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Iran, the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan have signed an agreement on the Caspian Sea, the world’s largest enclosed body of water and a region that has been the subject of dispute since the breakup of the Soviet

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Dr. Maysam Araee Daronkola, the director of the International Institute of Khazar Sea Studies (IIKSS) in a detailed interview with The Young Journalists Club Parliament should make the final decision on "Caspian Sea Convention" /

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In an interview last month (August 16) with the media outlet Azeri Daily, Azerbaijani member of parliament and the head of the Azerbaijan-Russia inter-parliamentary group, Ali Huseynli, suggested that, considering the changed geopolitical conditions in the South Caucasus,

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The U.S. has invested more than $13 billion in Azerbaijan’s economy, of which more than $1 billion has been invested in the country’s non-oil sector. Azerbaijani Economy Minister Shahin Mustafayev made the remarks at the meeting with Brian McFeeters,

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Russia does not plan to lay trunk pipelines along the bottom of the Caspian Sea, the Russian Foreign Ministry's ambassador-at-large Igor Bratchikov, Sputnik reports. "Actually, Russia and other littoral countries have already laid thousands of kilometers of pipes of different purposes

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Kazakhstan intends to use robots to develop regulatory and legal acts, the Minister of Justice of Kazakhstan Marat Beketayev said when speaking on the improvement of law-making activity during the government hour in the Senate of the Parliament of

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The main reason of illegal fishing on Caspian Sea in northern provinces of Iran is the great number of unemployed people, the IRNA news agency quoted Mokhtar Akhondi, the Deputy Director General for Fishing Affairs of Iran Fisheries Organization

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On 12 August 2018, the five Caspian littoral states, after two decades of negotiations, finally agreed on the status of the region when they signed the ‘Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea’ document in the port

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The first meeting of the working group on the status of the Caspian Sea is scheduled to be held in Baku in November of this year, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said on October 23. “As is known, in

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The discussion of the protocol on cooperation in combating the illegal harvesting of biological resources (poaching) in the Caspian Sea will be held in Ashgabat on Oct. 23-25, the Turkmen government said in a statement. The event will be

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Two residents of the Lankaran region were detained because of illegal fishing in the Caspian Sea in the waters of Lankaran city, the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources reported on October 23. Caught fish of various types, fishing tackle and

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Taking a cruise is a perfect opportunity to see several sites in one go. Therefore, it is not surprising that this way of traveling is rapidly gaining popularity. Moreover, cruise trips have become more affordable for a wide range

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The Turkmen parliament has adopted the draft law of Turkmenistan “On the tripartite commission for the regulation of social and labor relations,” the Turkmen government said in a message.   The document defines the legal

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Dr. Maysam Araee Daronkola, the director of the International Institute of Khazar Sea Studies (IIKSS) in an interview with The Iran-newspaper: we criticize the issue of minus 28.0 (-28.0) in determining the Base Line in Caspian Sea

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Turkmenistan is preparing for next year’s sixth Caspian summit and the first Caspian Economic Forum. The secretive state’s organising committee is addressing how to tackle the tricky issues surrounding dividing up the Caspian basin’s resources among the five littoral

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The points of international law, Caspian Sea - the coastal length of the Caspian littoral countries and its relation with the process of delimitation of the continental shelf International Institute of Khazar Studies (IIKSS) –

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It is well known that the trade sanctions that the US has imposed on the Iranian regime have been causing the latter to seek to develop alternatives for its development, effectively evading those sanctions and their effects.

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The Turkmen parliament has ratified the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea, the Turkmen government said in a message on Dec. 3. In addition, draft resolutions "On Ratification of the Agreement on the Prevention of Incidents

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Azerbaijan has continued its successful foreign policy under President Ilham Aliyev`s leadership this year too, reads an article headlined "Strategic diplomacy pursued by President Ilham Aliyev and achievements of our foreign policy" by head of the Department of Foreign

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The relationship between the length of the coastline and the delimitation of the continental shelf in the seas International Institute of Khazar Studies (IIKSS) – the relationship between the length of the coastline and the

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The Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea will contribute to the growth of investment attractiveness of the coastal countries, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a press conference "The Convention on the Legal Status

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The points of international law, Caspian Sea, are closed seas deprived of continental shelf? International Institute of Khazar Studies (IIKSS) – Perhaps it is futile to argue that the nature of the Caspian is sea

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The continental shelf and the legal regime of the seabed and subsoil of the Caspian Sea International Institute of Khazar Studies (IIKSS) – the division of the seabed and its benefits has always been one

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Turkmenistan is one of the strategic partners of Belarus, Trend reports referring to the interview of the TV channel "Turkmenistan" with the Ambassador of Belarus Oleg Tabanyukhov. The envoy noted that January marks some significant dates: the 26th anniversary

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International custom and legal regime governing the Caspian Sea (seas) International Institute of Khazar Studies (IIKSS) – It's not a secret that the Caspian Sea is already experiencing the most complicated legal-political situation in the

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Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met with Johannes Hahn, European Union Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy, during the Munich Security Conference on Friday, Trend reports referring to the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan. The meeting was also attended by

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The status of acquired rights in Caspian Sea Legal Regime International Institute of Khazar Studies (IIKSS) - if we consider the "right" as the centerpiece of the science of law, we will see that the

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The status of acquired rights in Caspian Sea Legal Regime International Institute of Khazar Studies (IIKSS) - if we consider the "right" as the centerpiece of the science of law, we will see that the

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Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met with Johannes Hahn, European Union Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy, during the Munich Security Conference on Friday, Trend reports referring to the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan. The meeting was also attended by

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International custom and legal regime governing the Caspian Sea (seas) International Institute of Khazar Studies (IIKSS) – It's not a secret that the Caspian Sea is already experiencing the most complicated legal-political situation in the

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Turkmenistan is one of the strategic partners of Belarus, Trend reports referring to the interview of the TV channel "Turkmenistan" with the Ambassador of Belarus Oleg Tabanyukhov. The envoy noted that January marks some significant dates: the 26th anniversary

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The continental shelf and the legal regime of the seabed and subsoil of the Caspian Sea International Institute of Khazar Studies (IIKSS) – the division of the seabed and its benefits has always been one

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The points of international law, Caspian Sea, are closed seas deprived of continental shelf? International Institute of Khazar Studies (IIKSS) – Perhaps it is futile to argue that the nature of the Caspian is sea

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The Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea will contribute to the growth of investment attractiveness of the coastal countries, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a press conference "The Convention on the Legal Status

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The relationship between the length of the coastline and the delimitation of the continental shelf in the seas International Institute of Khazar Studies (IIKSS) – the relationship between the length of the coastline and the

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Azerbaijan has continued its successful foreign policy under President Ilham Aliyev`s leadership this year too, reads an article headlined "Strategic diplomacy pursued by President Ilham Aliyev and achievements of our foreign policy" by head of the Department of Foreign

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The Turkmen parliament has ratified the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea, the Turkmen government said in a message on Dec. 3. In addition, draft resolutions "On Ratification of the Agreement on the Prevention of Incidents

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It is well known that the trade sanctions that the US has imposed on the Iranian regime have been causing the latter to seek to develop alternatives for its development, effectively evading those sanctions and their effects.

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The points of international law, Caspian Sea - the coastal length of the Caspian littoral countries and its relation with the process of delimitation of the continental shelf International Institute of Khazar Studies (IIKSS) –

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Turkmenistan is preparing for next year’s sixth Caspian summit and the first Caspian Economic Forum. The secretive state’s organising committee is addressing how to tackle the tricky issues surrounding dividing up the Caspian basin’s resources among the five littoral

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Dr. Maysam Araee Daronkola, the director of the International Institute of Khazar Sea Studies (IIKSS) in an interview with The Iran-newspaper: we criticize the issue of minus 28.0 (-28.0) in determining the Base Line in Caspian Sea

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The Turkmen parliament has adopted the draft law of Turkmenistan “On the tripartite commission for the regulation of social and labor relations,” the Turkmen government said in a message.   The document defines the legal

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Taking a cruise is a perfect opportunity to see several sites in one go. Therefore, it is not surprising that this way of traveling is rapidly gaining popularity. Moreover, cruise trips have become more affordable for a wide range

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Two residents of the Lankaran region were detained because of illegal fishing in the Caspian Sea in the waters of Lankaran city, the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources reported on October 23. Caught fish of various types, fishing tackle and

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The discussion of the protocol on cooperation in combating the illegal harvesting of biological resources (poaching) in the Caspian Sea will be held in Ashgabat on Oct. 23-25, the Turkmen government said in a statement. The event will be

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The first meeting of the working group on the status of the Caspian Sea is scheduled to be held in Baku in November of this year, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said on October 23. “As is known, in

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On 12 August 2018, the five Caspian littoral states, after two decades of negotiations, finally agreed on the status of the region when they signed the ‘Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea’ document in the port

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The main reason of illegal fishing on Caspian Sea in northern provinces of Iran is the great number of unemployed people, the IRNA news agency quoted Mokhtar Akhondi, the Deputy Director General for Fishing Affairs of Iran Fisheries Organization

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Kazakhstan intends to use robots to develop regulatory and legal acts, the Minister of Justice of Kazakhstan Marat Beketayev said when speaking on the improvement of law-making activity during the government hour in the Senate of the Parliament of

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Russia does not plan to lay trunk pipelines along the bottom of the Caspian Sea, the Russian Foreign Ministry's ambassador-at-large Igor Bratchikov, Sputnik reports. "Actually, Russia and other littoral countries have already laid thousands of kilometers of pipes of different purposes

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The U.S. has invested more than $13 billion in Azerbaijan’s economy, of which more than $1 billion has been invested in the country’s non-oil sector. Azerbaijani Economy Minister Shahin Mustafayev made the remarks at the meeting with Brian McFeeters,

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In an interview last month (August 16) with the media outlet Azeri Daily, Azerbaijani member of parliament and the head of the Azerbaijan-Russia inter-parliamentary group, Ali Huseynli, suggested that, considering the changed geopolitical conditions in the South Caucasus,

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Dr. Maysam Araee Daronkola, the director of the International Institute of Khazar Sea Studies (IIKSS) in a detailed interview with The Young Journalists Club Parliament should make the final decision on "Caspian Sea Convention" /

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Iran, the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan have signed an agreement on the Caspian Sea, the world’s largest enclosed body of water and a region that has been the subject of dispute since the breakup of the Soviet

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Kazakhstan will be able to state about the completion of the legal formalities for the boundaries, sovereign rights for subsoil use in the Caspian Sea after the location of the junction of the lines of delimitation of the sea-bed

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Iran’s 50% share of Caspian Sea cannot be legally verified: expert International Institute of Khazar Sea Studies (IIKSS) – The director of the International Institute of Khazar Sea Studies (IIKSS) told Mehr News Agency that Iran’s 50% share of Caspian

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Energy projects in the resource-rich Caspian Sea could receive a boost after five nations agreed on the legal terms of how to share access after 20 years of negotiations. Despite being one of the world's oldest hydrocarbons producing regions,

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The leaders of the five Caspian Sea countries are meeting in the Kazakh port city of Aqtau to sign a convention in an effort to resolve major differences over the resource-rich body's legal status. The proposed deal

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The Kremlin says that, after more than two decades of negotiations, leaders of the five Caspian Sea countries will sign a convention on the resource-rich sea’s legal status at a summit in the Kazakh port city of Aqtau on

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Deputies of Iranian and Russian foreign ministries met and held talks on the latest developments in the region and across the globe, and conferred on ways to counter terrorism. The meeting was

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The current situation is by no means a good time for agreement on the Caspian Sea regime/ do not repeat past mistakes International Institute of Khazar Sea Studies (IIKSS) –  Recently on Monday 16 July 2018 the

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August 12th, 2018 could well become a historic day for the Caspian Sea region, with states aiming to end a long-running legal disagreement involving the areas natural resources. Since the breakup of the Soviet Union in the region, Azerbaijan,

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 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov plans to participate in a meeting of the top diplomats of the Caspian states scheduled to take place in Kazakhstan’s city of Aktau on August 11, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin told TASS

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The principle of non-presence of armed forces not belonging to the five Caspian countries is one of the agreed provisions of the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea, which is expected to be signed at a

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A researcher on Caspian Sea issues: TANAP can be a pretext for West's presence in the Caspian Sea International Institute of Khazar Sea Studies (IIKSS) – According to the Tasnim News Agency's International Group, the opening of

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Anar Aliyev has been appointed head of the Office of Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Population of Azerbaijan, reads the order of the minister of labor and social protection of population. Anar Aliyev was born in 1980

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After more than 20 years of debate between the governments of the five Caspian Sea littoral states over the status of what is the world’s largest lake, its legal status and how its

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A summit of the Caspian countries will discuss strengthening security amid a chaotic wider region, said a member of Russia’s State Duma Committee on International Affairs Sergey Zheleznyak. And the foreign minister of Kazakhstan, Kairat Abdrakhmanov, said the August

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Iranian officials have repeatedly accused US of imposing illegal sanctions after pulling out from the Iran nuclear deal Iran has filed a complaint with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to "hold [the] US accountable for

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Moscow and Tehran are expanding economic cooperation, with Russia planning multi-billion dollar investments in Iran's energy sector. The move comes as major Western firms are pulling out of Iran amid the threat of US sanctions.

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The summit of the heads of the Caspian states will be held in August, the Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan Kairat Abdrakhmanov said, Sputnik Kazakhstan reported. It was reported earlier that, the summit of the "Caspian group of five" will

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Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Bakytzhan Sagyntayev and Federal Adviser and head of the Federal Department of Economics, Education and Research of Switzerland Johann Schneider-Ammann discussed the issues of further deepening of trade and economic relations between Kazakhstan and Switzerland,

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Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the three major European signatories to a landmark nuclear deal with Iran agreed to establish trade ties with Iran independent of the US dollar. Since the United States' unilateral move in May to

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Is it possible to go to the International Court of Justice to resolve the legal regime of the Caspian Sea? International Institute of Khazar Sea Studies (IIKSS) - After a period when was viewed emotionally to the

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Calls for protests against Kazakhstan's authoritarian ruler by an exiled opposition leader on the 20th anniversary celebrations of Astana's establishment as the Kazakh capital appear to have fallen flat. Security was tight late on July 6 at concerts marking

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The irreconcilable fight against bribery and corruption will be conducted, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said when addressing the participants of the expanded government meeting, the Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper wrote July 6. No one is allowed to steal people's

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U.S. State Department’s annual Trafficking in Persons report can result in penalties limiting access to international assistance.   The annual Trafficking In Persons report analyzed 187 countries around the world and ranked them into three tiers according to

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Turkmenistan needs to cooperate with Azerbaijan and Turkey to enter the gas market in Europe, expert on Central Asia, Bruce Pannier, stated last week. On June 22, the Russian legal information portal published the full

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The Labyrinth of the Caspian Sea Legal Regime in an interview with Tasnim Dr. Maysam Araee Daronkola, the director of the International Institute of Khazar Sea Studies (IIKSS) in an interview with Tasnim News Agency International

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The working meeting of experts of the Caspian states will be held in Astana on June 18-19, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tleuberdi told reporters June 12. "On June 18-19, Astana will

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The Mejlis (Parliament) of Turkmenistan of the sixth convocation has approved and adopted the draft law "On state regulation of development of agriculture”, said a message from the Turkmen government. The new law defines the legal, economic, social and

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The director of the International Institute of Khazar Sea Studies (IIKSS): Iran should not hurry to sign the draft of the legal regime of the Caspian Sea International Institute of Khazar Sea Studies (IIKSS) - While arguing

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The five Caspian countries are considering the issue of adopting a convention on legal status of the Caspian Sea, which will resolve many controversial issues, including the resource development, at a summit scheduled for August, Russia's State Secretary and

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Kommersant: Gazprom signs deal to supply gas to Austria for another 20 years Russian energy giant Gazprom and Austria’s OMV extended a contract on gas supplies until 2040 on Tuesday. Austria, the first country in Western Europe to

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Moscow can see that all participants in the Iran nuclear deal, except the US, are determined to maintain the agreement and will continue efforts to that end, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday, TASS reports. "A

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The regular meeting of the Special Working Group of the Caspian littoral states on the preparation of the Convention on the legal status of the sea will be held in Astana, Kazakhstan, May 21-24, 2018, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry

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Kazakh Minister of Foreign Affairs Kairat Abdrakhmanov received Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Paraguay Federico Alberto Gonzalez Franco, who arrived in Astana to participate in the Ministerial Meeting of Landlocked Developing Countries on Transport and Trade,

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Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev has called for global cooperation for cryptocurrency regulation, local news outlet Azernews reported May 17. Speaking at the plenary session of the Global Challenges Summit 2018, Nazarbayev stated that “most countries are actively exploring the

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Russia appears to be taking a long-haul approach to economic relations with Iran, one based on patience and building a solid base for cooperation. When Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif visited Moscow on May 14,

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Iran and Russia could start using cryptocurrencies to avoid Western sanctions, Russian news portal RBC reported yesterday, May 17. Mohammad Reza Pourebrahimi, the head of the Iranian Parliamentary Commission for Economic Affairs, referred to cryptocurrencies as a promising way

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The effect of determination of Special Fishery Zone and its destructive consequences on processes of delimitation of marine zones of the Caspian Sea International Institute of Khazar Studies (IIKSS) – One of the issues that has been

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TEHRAN, May 12 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told the visiting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Raşit Meredow in Tehran on Sat. that Iran puts no limitation on developing ties with Turkmenistan. “We see no

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The gulf of Mazandaran As a geographical, political and legal undeniable reality 1- A gulf is a large bay that is an arm of an large body of water.  2- Countries customs show us that the gulf

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Why do we insist on the continental shelf in the Caspian Sea? International Institute of Khazar Studies (IIKSS) - Countries have been looking for oil and other subsoil resources along their natural prolongation land

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International Institute of Khazar Studies (IIKSS) - In an interview with International Institute of Khazar Sea Studies (IIKSS) (Farsi), Bahram Amirahmadian, an assistant professor at University of Tehran and the senior fellow at IRAS, discussed some deeper layers

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The shadow of the government of the Russians be continued (analysis of the stability index of the government of the Russian Federation) IIKSS- In the process of analyzing the survival, duration and stability of the government in

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IIKSS- Azerbaijan’s ambitious Southern Gas Corridor project has the potential to further estrange EU-Moscow ties and trigger energy price wars. A white metal building protruded upwards in a large empty field along the coast of the Caspian Sea

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IIKSS- The fourth meeting of the Caspian Expert Club, timed to the 300th anniversary of the Astrakhan province, was held in Astrakhan yesterday. The experts met to discuss historical research and media projects within the framework of the

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IIKSS- The European Commission has said that energy laws should apply to offshore as well as onshore parts of Russia's new gas pipeline, Nord Stream 2 . Maros Sefcovic, the EU energy commissioner, told a group of reporters

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IIKSS- Iran’s President Rouhani described relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan friendly and strategic. “Relations between the two countries has been developing since three years ago with regard to political ties and

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IIKSS- While on an official visit to Russia, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, deputy chairman of the Federation Council Ilyas Umakhanov, Deputy Prime Minister, co-chairman of the Russia-Azerbaijan Intergovernmental Commission Dmitry

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IIKSS-The International Ocean Institute (IOI) with the support of Turkmenistan’s Foreign Ministry and the State Enterprise on Caspian Sea Issues under the President of Turkmenistan is holding a seminar in Avaza, titled “Caspian Sea – sustainable development and

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IIKSS- The recent visit of Azerbaijani president to Tehran as well as signing of several important documents showed an eternal friendship between the two neighboring countries. President Ilham Aliyev paid a one-day official visit to Iran on March

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IIKSS- The recent visit of Azerbaijani president to Tehran as well as signing of several important documents showed an eternal friendship between the two neighboring countries. President Ilham Aliyev paid a one-day official visit to Iran on March

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IIKSS- Most components of the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea have been agreed, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after talks with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mamedyarov on Monday. "We have discussed this situation

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IIKSS- In a message on the occasion of 515 years of Iran-Russia historical ties, the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that few countries in the world have as deep and historical relations. However, he said that

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IIKSS- A team at International Research Networks (IRN) organised an excellent Iran Business Symposium on Feb. 21+23, 2017, at the Renaissance Hotel in Amsterdam. It was attended by Switzerland, Germany, Turkey, Italy, and many other EU countries and

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IIKSS- A team at International Research Networks (IRN) organised an excellent Iran Business Symposium on Feb. 21+23, 2017, at the Renaissance Hotel in Amsterdam. It was attended by Switzerland, Germany, Turkey, Italy, and many other EU countries and

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IIKSS- Turkmenistan will continue the active cooperation on the Caspian Sea issues on a five-party basis, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers. The Caspian Sea is surrounded by Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan

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IIKSS - During the trip of the Head of Turkmen State, special attention was paid to the issues of social and economic development of the region, realization of adopted state programmes including in industrial sector and agricultural sphere.

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IIKSS - The national flag of Kazakhstan was raised in a special ceremony in front of the hall of the UN Security Council at the United Nations in New York on December 31, 2016 as the country has

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IIKSS - A senior official in Islamic Republic of Iran Railways (RAI) Abbas Nazari said the construction phase of Astara (Iran)-Astara (Azerbaijan) railway line has been accomplished in the Azerbaijani side. Islamic Republic of Iran Railways Director General

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IIKSS - Iran’s Parliament head: Iran’s great nation fought against wrongdoings after months of internal political chaos and various trouble-makings in 2009. In his speech marking the Dey 9th demonstration (30 December, 2010), Ali Larijani said: "Iran’s

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IIKSS - Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan have held consultations on the legal status of the Caspian Sea in Baku. Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov represented Azerbaijan, while ambassador-at-large at the Foreign Ministry Zulfiya Amanzholova attended the consultations on behalf

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IIKSS - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is deepening its support for the private sector in Turkmenistan by arranging a US$ 1 million loan Intizar Yurek, a leading packaging company in the country. The loan

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IIKSS - The Russian State Duma approved on December 21 a bill "On ratification of the Agreement on cooperation in the field of emergency prevention in the Caspian Sea". The deal was inked in September 2014 in the

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IIKSS - Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan have not yet reached a full understanding on the Kapaz field, Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov told reporters in Baku Dec. 12. Bilateral talks and consultations on this issue are being held

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IIKSS - Iran’s economy minister and Czech’s parliament speaker has agreed in joint investment in automaking as well as construction of railroads in Iran. Ali Tayebnia, who is staying in Prague to attend the meeting of Iran-Czech Joint

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IIKSS - A group of specialists have conducted an environmental monitoring on the underlying platform, built for an artificial island southeast of the Caspian Sea, the Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper reported. "The island is rapidly overgrown with saline grasses,

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IIKSS - The 21st International Exhibition and Conference "Oil and Gas of Turkmenistan 2016" will be held in Ashgabat on December 7-9, the Turkmen government said in a message. According to the message, the specialists from 40 countries

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IIKSS - Forestalling the agenda of the session, the Leader of the Nation, addressing the participants, noted that historical event was held recently in Ashgabat, the Global Sustainable Transport Conference was organized and conducted on high level under

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IIKSS -  Russia is profoundly disappointed with the results of the 8th Review Conference of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC), the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday. The conference was held in Geneva on November 7-25.

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IIKSS - Regular 17th session of the Mejlis of Turkmenistan of the fifth convocation was held. Number of new laws and legal and regulatory acts, developed in accordance with the priorities of the policy of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov

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IIKSS - During the session of the cabinet of Ministers on November 18, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov highlighted that development of mutually beneficial partnership with neighbouring countries including with Caspian states is one of the priority directions of foreign

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IIKSS - The media has become a key battleground in the current conflict between Russia and the West, with Russia’s two state-funded, U.S.-based media outlets at the forefront. RT America and Sputnik are responsible for crafting the Russian

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IIKSS- Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during celebrations for Navy Day as it rains in Baltiysk Thomson Reuters In the November issue of the US Naval Institute's Proceedings magazine, Commander Daniel Thomassen of the Royal

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IIKSS- India has carved a new geopolitical beginning in the Persian Gulf region putting Chabahar in the grand canvas of India’s geo-economic calculus in the emerging Asian architecture. She has kept her American partnership vibrant while opening a

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IIKSS- The place was literally and figuratively a crossroads. It wasn’t just the point where north-south highways and rail lines met their east-west compliments but the turning point of an entire nation going in a new direction. Extending

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E-graphic image of Caspian Sea coastal strip to be developed   Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree on October 4 on amendments to the presidential decree from January 15 2016 "On application of the Law" On Amendments to the Land

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Turkey, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan aim to increase connectivity   Turkey needs to preserve the existing business volumes in established markets like Russia and the Middle East and expand in markets that offer relatively safer business environments such as Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, and

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Gas Pipelines Threaten EU Climate Goals, Critics Contend Civil society campaigners have accused the European Union of pouring unprecedented amounts of state aid into a huge energy project that runs counter to its own climate change objectives. Critics say funding the construction

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Pentagon’s Plan to Spy on Russia, Iran is a 'Signal of a Decline in US Hegemony'   The United States Congress Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa will consider the Iran-Russia Cooperation Reporting Act. Sponsor of the bill Republican Mike Pompeo wants

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Former Navy Commander: US is not weak, but Russia and Iran provoke us to get Trump elected   In an opinion piece in the US Naval Institute's News Blog, Retired US Navy Commander Daniel Dolan asserts that Russia and Iran harass and

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Artificial fish lakes of Azerbaijan under liquidation   State Committee on real estate matters takes measures to ensure efficient use of land in Azerbaijan. State Committee on real estate matters informed that on 9 September raids and monitoring for creation of artificial

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Turkmenistan discussing Caspian Sea agreements   Another meeting of the Turkmen Interdepartmental Commission on the Caspian Sea was held in Ashgabat, the Turkmen government said Sept. 6. According to the message, the draft agreements on trade and economic cooperation among the Caspian-littoral

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 Summit Signals Russia’s New Strategy Towards Iran Faced with recent strains in the relationship, Moscow has expanded its dialogue with Tehran to issues beyond the Syrian conflict. Hassan Rouhani, Ilham Aliyev and Vladimir Putin meet in Baku. In early August, Russian

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Is Putin the new Stalin? ‘Tom’ thinks Vladimir Putin is the new Josef Stalin. As he’s never been to Russia, his views surely reflect the power of a Western media narrative which continuously demonizes the Russian President. Last week, an optician from

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Bumi Q2 earnings decline   Malaysian FPSO player Bumi Armada reported 12.2% lower revenue of RM402.9 million and net loss of RM518.3 million in Q2 2016 due to lower income from its floating production storage and offloading (FPSO), and floating gas

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Turkmenistan seeks to deliver its hydrocarbons to West   Turkmenistan, an energy-rich Central Asian nation with abundant hydrocarbon reserves, is keen to diversify the routes of its gas export. Being the sixth in the world for the volume of natural gas reserves, the

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Turkmenistan, Germany to sign some documents   Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov intends to pay a working visit to Germany August 29-30, the Turkmen government said Aug. 27. According to the message, several documents are planned to be signed as part of the

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Azerbaijani Navy exercises live-fire   The Azerbaijani Navy have held another stage of command and staff exercise with live-firing, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry reported on August 24. The exercises are held on the instruction of Azerbaijani President, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed

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Russia-Azerbaijan-Iran: New format for long-term partnership   On August 8, 2016 a trilateral meeting between the presidents of Russia, Azerbaijan and Iran took place in Baku. A joint declaration was adopted to underline and affirm intent

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All Caviar Is Expensive—but It’s Not All Sustainable There’s a full moon rising tomorrow, Aug. 18, and it has a name. Known as the Sturgeon Moon, it marks the time when Native American tribes harvested those meaty, plentiful fish from

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August 12 marks Day of Caspian Sea   August 12 marks the Day of the Caspian Sea, the largest land-locked body of water on earth. The Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea, also known as

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<header class="article-header entry-header"> Kazakhstan seeks International Arbitration ruling over investment in Romania </header>   KMGI Deputy Director General Azamat Zhangulov talks to New Europe in an interview about his company’s investment in the Balkans region Nine years ago, in the Balkans,

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'Rouhani-Putin-Aliyev meeting to set in motion regional convergence'   Iranian Ambassador to Baku Mohsen Paka'ein asserts that the tripartite meeting between presidents of Iran, Russia, and Azerbaijan in Baku on August 8 will open a new chapter in regional

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Oil and Gas Drilling Threatens Little-Known but Unique Seal   The 20th century was not kind to the Caspian seal. About 100 years ago, an estimated 1 million of these four-foot-long marine mammals swam the waters of the Caspian Sea, the world’s

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Baku Summit to Enrich Persian Gulf With Caspian Sea Resources   Leaders of Russia, Iran and Azerbaijan met in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku to intensify their cooperation in the energy field. Political expert Sajjad Tayeri said

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Iran, Azerbaijan ink 6 MoUs in Baku The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan signed six memoranda of understanding in Baku on Sun. to further deepen ties between the two countries. In the ceremony

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Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan recognize importance of convention on status of Caspian Sea   Russia, Iran and Azerbaijan recognize the importance of the early adoption of convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea, according to a draft declaration

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Week Ahead Political Diary: Erdogan to meet Putin for talks     Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian president Vladimir Putin will hold talks

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'Rouhani-Putin-Aliyev meeting to set in motion regional convergence'   Iranian Ambassador to Baku Mohsen Paka'ein asserts that the tripartite meeting between presidents of Iran, Russia, and Azerbaijan in Baku on August 8 will open a new chapter in regional

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Iran would help solve Nagorno-Karabakh conflict   President Hassan Rouhani of Iran has told a press conference in Baku Iran has welcomed intermediation in Nagorno-Karabagh to help Republic of Azerbaijan solve the conflict with Armenia. President Rouhani is

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Putin praises prospects of Russia-Azerbaijan transit traffic capacities   The Russian leader welcomes consolidation of Iran's and Azerbaijan's railway infrastructure under the International North-South Transport Corridor. The integration of Iranian and Azerbaijani railroads within the north-south transport corridor opens up new

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West playing with fire by curbing Aleppo liberation   While Syrian Army siege over Aleppo is completed and the biggest city of country is expected to be liberated in near future, West and some Arab states try to hinder

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Iran, Russia Plan to Ink 70-Project Cooperation Deal   Iran and Russia are to sign a cooperation deal on more than 70 industrial projects, Russian media reports said on Saturday. Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said the plans were decided

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Militarization of the Caspian Sea: A Zero-Sum Game?   On July 13, in the capital city of Astana, Kazakhstan hosted a meeting of the foreign ministers of the five Caspian littoral states. The officials gathered to discuss a draft convention on

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Chabahar: In the Grand Chessboard of India’s Geo-Strategic Calculus   by Jajati K. Pattnaik and R. P. Pradhan Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Tehran marks a new geopolitical beginning in the Persian Gulf region putting Chabahar in the