Map:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/EART/x-ussr/100k/L-37-098.jpg
Tuzlinskaja kosa (Tuzla spit): between grid co-ord. 7306,5020 and
7311,5015.
Peter S.
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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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