"The landward tripoint where the agreement forks into disagreement" would be
where the land boundary meets the Sea of Azov on its north shore. The two
nations differ on the status of the sea. The Ukraine wants to delimit a
boundary all the way through it to the existing boundary in the Strait of Kerch,
making the Sea of Azov inland territorial waters of the two nations. The
Russian Federation wants some form of joint use of the sea.
I have a map of the strait showing the boundary and the island in question, but
it is strictly not subject to publication. It's pretty straightforward. The
Kerch Peninsula comes in from the west, and the Taman Peninsula comes in from
the east. The Strait of Kerch cuts raggedly between them, with the boundary
running through it. Tuzla Island is on the Ukrainian side of the boundary. The
boundary shown through the strait has ends where the strait opens out into the
Sea of Azov to the north and the Black Sea to the south.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "acroorca2002" <orc@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 2:12 PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: new wrinkles dept
> wow
> thanxx for the exegeses
>
> a slo mo invasion by dam dike bridge aqueduct & vodkaduct
>
> this is going to be a riot to monitor
>
> which makes me all the more curious if anyone can actually
> show the full area of the dispute & the landward tripoint where
> agreement forks into disagreement
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
> <mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> > This dispute is not along the two nations' land border north of
> the Sea of Azov,
> > which is fully delimited, but is in the shallow waters of the Strait
> of Kerch,
> > through which the Sea of Azov communicates with the Black
> Sea. The Kerch
> > Peninsula west of the strait is Ukrainian, and the Taman
> Peninsula east of the
> > strait is Russian. A Russian local government is building a
> "dam" (more like a
> > dike) across part of the strait from the Taman Peninsula and
> wants to connect it
> > to Tuzla Island in the strait. That island was connected to the
> Russian
> > mainland until 1925, but it was assigned to the Soviet Ukraine
> in 1954. The
> > Ukrainians are afraid that Russia will claim the island so that
> they can connect
> > their dike to it.
> >
> > For a thorough exegesis of the issue, go to this Google cache
> of an article
> > otherwise no longer available: http://tinyurl.com/rrul . Scroll
> about a
> > quarter of the way down the long page to the topic "Ukraine."
> >
> > Lowell G. McManus
> > Leesville, Louisiana, USA
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "m06079" <barbaria_longa@h...>
> > To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 10:52 AM
> > Subject: [BoundaryPoint] new wrinkles dept
> >
> >
> > > yikes ukraine braces for a border riot as russian dam
> > > construction advances in slo mo invasion of their common
> > > disputed area
> > > http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2003/10/21/50660.html
> > >
> > > i assume any seaward tripoints here are still indeterminate
> > > & are the actual prize of the contest
> > >
> > > but perhaps it will end as a land sale rather than just a land
> grab
> > >
> > > anyway can anyone please show the full area in question
> > > & particularly locate the landward de facto tripoint
> > > where their agreed ruua border splits into disagreement
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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