Black Sea Lighthouse Conflict Flares Up Again
By Sue Clark on Aug 27, 2009 in News 
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By R.J. Leaman
The emotional Russian-Ukrainian tug-of-war over 100 disputed lighthouses heated up this week, as Russia’s Black Sea Fleet arrested a group of Ukrainian bailiffs who were trying to take control of the lighthouse in Khersones, on the outskirts of the Ukrainian Crimean port of Sevastopol.
According to the Ukrainian Journal, the incident “dangerously escalates tensions between Ukraine and Russia whose relations are already at the lowest point since the collapse of the former Soviet Union in 1991,” an event which left Russian naval bases located on Ukrainian territory and numbers of ethnic Russians living in Ukraine.
News report from Russia Today television:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0wFwfuOLMM
Thanks to good friend and blogger Rebecca J. Leaman for sending this my way. Rebecca is the primary author at Wild Apricot. Lighthouse Groups, you might want to check out their blog. It is the site to read for technology for non-profits.
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