The crash of 2008 left huge numbers of unsold holiday flats along the Black Sea coast.

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For now, the sole working route to Russia's Black Sea coast runs through Dagestan and Chechnya.

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But the bulk of this output is expected to flow through a new line running to Russia's Black Sea coast.

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Moscow's powerful mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, makes sure that young men from his city serve either locally or on Russia's balmy Black Sea coast.

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If fully realised, these additions could exceed the capacity of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium's first- and second-phase pipelines to the Russian Black Sea coast.

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Born 47 years ago into a poor family that migrated to Istanbul from a province on the Black Sea coast, Mr Erdogan got his street education as a teenager peddling lemonade and simits (sesame buns) in one of Istanbul's roughest districts.

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DryShips does have operating contracts for its two existing drillships transporting drilling rigs in the Black Sea and the other off the coast of West Africa, and these two vessels are responsible for more than 40% of revenues in the first quarter.

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Where the jagged peaks of the Black Cuillin Mountains meet the sea, the coast is battered by Atlantic gales and monsoon rains.

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