And in fact, drought in the Black Sea region cut Russia's wheat harvest by a third this year.

事实上，黑海地区的干旱导致俄罗斯今年的小麦收成降低了三分之一。

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Across the Black Sea region — in Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan — drought this year is pushing harvests down by fifteen to twenty percent.

横跨黑海地区乌克兰、俄罗斯和哈萨克斯坦的干旱导致今年的收成下降了15%到。

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The draft joint statement also called for progress on ITGI, a Turkish-Greek gas pipeline taking gas to Italy, and for an extension of an oil transport system between Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan that "could be developed in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea region."

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In Russia in 2010 Chevron signed an exploration deal with Kremlin-controlled Rosneft to explore in the Black Sea region.

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There is a call for the EU's new External Action Service to make the Black Sea region a priority for its staffing and structure.

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Austrian assertiveness as Ottoman influence declined was compounded with Russian determination to resist any encroachment that threatened her historic interests in the Black Sea region.

ECONOMIST: 20th-century history