The ecological catastrophe began December 15, when two Russian oil tankers, the Volgoneft-212 and the Volgoneft-239, sank ...

Long stretches of Russia’s Black Sea coastline are covered in oil spilled ... Videos geolocated by CNN showed a beach near Anapa, north of the city of Novorossiysk, has been flooded with oil.

Reasons to go — Black Sea beach resort towns like Albena, Golden Sands and Sunny Beach, ski hotspots like Bansko and Pamporovo, the city of Sofia and a complex history that has seen many ...

During the 1960s and 1970s, Europeans on the western side of the Iron Curtain flocked to beaches during the summer, and many ...

A video posted by Zvezda TV showed a black, oil-like substance along the coast at Anapa, and tarry stains along a beach strewn with ... dolphins and other sea mammals. "You can say they hit ...

Russia continues to suffer military defeats in the strategically vital Black Sea, one of Moscow's most crucial avenues for political and economic influence into the Mediterranean and beyond.

Russian President Vladimir Putin calls the incident an "ecological disaster" as officials and volunteers attempt to clean ...

Russia has declared a federal state of emergency over an oil spill in the Black Sea, which came after a tanker "split in half" during a fierce winter storm. The head of the Russian Emergencies ...