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The Black Sea has a bellyache

The Black Sea has a problem. That is why the six Black Sea countries (Turkey, Georgia, the Russian Federation, Bulgaria, Romania and Ukraine) signed the Black Sea Strategic Action Plan (BSAP) on October 31, 1996.

The 31st of October is now International Black Sea Day. On International Black Sea Day, beach clean-ups and other events take place in the countries around the Black Sea, organised by the local NGOs (non-government organisations).

Contrary to what you might expect, developments in the Black Sea region do not only influence the Black Sea countries. The Black Sea region is important for the entire world, so what happens there affects the entire world. What happens in the Black Sea region affects you too, wherever you live, whether you like caviar, dolphins, neither or both.

So, what is this "bellyache", you ask? And where is it located anyway, this Black Sea?

Some information about these Black Sea pages

I am sorry but you are not allowed to copy or use any pictures from this site without prior written permission. They are not mine and most of them are not my boss's either.

Dr. Vershinin, together with Katya Sivkova of Izhevsk State University, also provided a Russian version of this site, when it was still hosted at savetheblacksea.org.

As I don't speak Russian - and neither does my boss - I was not able to update the Russian pages and decided not to keep them. Instead, I am referring all Russian readers to the Russian version of Dr. Vershinin's site.