Caspian Crossroads·Oct 28Caspian sea 'special legal status' leaves seabed split unresolved eight years after aktauThe 2018 Convention set surface-water rules but left the oil and gas seabed to bilateral deals, and Iran still hasn't ratified it.
Caspian Crossroads·Oct 25Russia's caspian flotilla relocation exposes cracks in the 2018 actMoscow is moving warships from Astrakhan to Kaspiysk while the five littoral states still cannot agree on how to divide the seabed beneath…
Eurasian Undercurrents·Oct 21Russia's caspian flotilla repairs run through a kazakh shipyard that isn't on any sanctions listThe Bautino shipyard on Kazakhstan's Mangyshlak Peninsula has serviced at least eleven vessels linked to Russia's Caspian Flotilla since…
Caspian Crossroads·Sep 25Pollution complaints in dagestan expose the caspian's weak legal coreFive littoral states have still not agreed on where their seabed borders run, so nobody owns the job of cleaning up the water.
Silk Road Politics·Sep 16Kazakhstan's caspian ports are the new frontline of the BRIWhile everyone watches the Middle Corridor's rail numbers, Aktau and Kuryk are where the real bottleneck sits — and where Washington…
