(Turkish Weekly) - Seven former Soviet-bloc countries, seeking to lessen dependence on Moscow’s energy supplies and transport routes, have agreed to launch a joint project aimed at bypassing Russian territory to bring Caspian oil to European markets.
(Financial Times) - The shrinking of the Aral Sea began after the Soviet Union launched a grandiose scheme to cultivate the barren central Asian steppe in the 1960s.
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