... be prefaced with the fact that the region’s borders are not clearly fixed. Generally speaking, when discussing the situation in the region, politicians and experts tend to refer not only to the six countries that have a coastline on the Black Sea (Bulgaria, Georgia, Russia, Romania, Turkey and Ukraine) but also to neighbouring states. It is, thus, no coincidence that the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) founded 28 years ago (if we consider the Bosphorus Statement its constituent ...
... training sea range to perform training missions.
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Certainly, these events have a special significance for their participants, who exchange information and expand cooperation. The Blackseafor
was established
for this purpose in 2001 and had Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, and Georgia participate. Today, we can hardly say that the states of the Black Sea region have a complete understanding on security matters: joint exercises with the participation of all states
have not been ...
Geopolitical processes in today’s world increased the strategic significance the Black Sea region has for Russia, and also buttressed the ambitions of Turkey and Bulgaria. The latest geoeconomic and political factors prompt the revival of negotiations on the previously frozen pipeline projects designed to export Russian gas to Europe. Let’s note that the South Stream and the Turkish stream had been frozen ...
... relations between Russia and NATO.
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A U.S. Army fire team from the 2nd Stryker
Cavalry Regiment scouts a simulated enemy
obstacle during Joint Task Force-East military
operations urban terrain training at Novo Selo
Training Area, Bulgaria
The need to implement this project is attributed to historical analogues: the function of deploying heavy weapons has been compared with the organization of the Berlin Brigade in 1961 at the height of tensions between the Soviet Union and the ...
From the point of view of Bulgaria, South Stream has one major flaw
On the anniversary of the day Communist leader Todor Zhivkov was deposed and one-party rule ended a quarter century ago, Bulgaria experienced the rise of its first four-party coalition government into power....
From the sixteenth republic to the twenty-seventh member
Of all former Soviet Union states, Bulgaria was mostly affected by the union’s disintegration and forced reorientation of its policy and economy towards the West. But now a host of objective reasons is dictating that the country should restore relations with its former ally, which ...
