of cozy it is returning to normal and again becoming a tourist hub for the black sea region. if traveling by sea and old lighthouse points the way to cause is capital so whom. the keep of finds it difficult to open the massive dools it is at least one hundred fifty years old. he then climbs the leading to the land. and yes three this is part of a long stairwell made in the nineteenth century. it was built together with this lighthouse in eight hundred sixty one feet. it's beautiful to see where they don't make anything like it nowadays. the lighthouse is one hundred feet high it's a powerful light can be seen thirty kilometers away. the sukhumi lighthouse has french origins the russian empire has navy placed an order for its construction with the company that was at the same time drawing up a blueprint for the eiffel tower. at that time there was an oil lamp here. it was quite an advanced lighting fixture by the standards of the day. but compared to modern one thousand watt lamps it was three or four times a week. with a permitting took his black sea coast can be seen on the h

he just gets an urchin is from nearly the entire black sea coast brought their group here. just to stand up a kin often visit succumbs main pair. the paintings are inspired by the city and the sea it sits upon. what is this sea is big in now in the middle part of this land. who don't come here just to have a good time and leave already got the sea and this land as part of all sounds. one of the standards paintings commemorates her friends from fought in the war but never returned. her father is still missing but a stand of hopes is a lie. which. because he is ecology minister and i'm on the bus teaches that succumbs state university just moved today he tells his students that a cause can boast a vast reserves of pure water due to its glaciers and driven. if we conserve water in the upper reaches of our rivers the republic will have the most valuable resource for many years to come all of mankind needs this resource nowadays the value of a liter of ecologically clean water exceeds the cost of a later of oil revenue. streams from flame is a cool collision law in that stands in

is getting to take part in the development of oil fields in western siberia and on the black sea and according to russia's vice premier you're going to see it in the black sea project could grow in the future and enter and also we have to is getting city water in the development of all the prophets in the united states it's going to be at least six projects and it will include texas and even the gulf of mexico so this is a great chance for both companies to change their experiences and know how us in this in this industry in fact exxon mobil has already tried. to attract russian energy company russian oil company to the playing us previously it was around ten years ago would you go due to the company's legal problems here in russia that deal never went through. ok thank you you can often putting on a. mobile thanks for this update. now let's have a look at the markets light sweet is declining heading for the biggest nothing top since may that's all speculation that increase includes stockpiles in the us in the case. told in the world's largest economy gratis trading just for one hund

pointing to russia's vice premier eager to see the black sea project could grow in the future. is it getting to take part in the development of oil fields in the united states in at least six projects including in texas and in the gulf of mexico so this is agreed opportunity for terms of its global expansion and in terms of the exchange of experience and no house with exxon mobil which is considered to be the biggest oil company in the world and we also have to hold a sixty six percent stake in the joint venture. the rest here is largely symbolic from deutsche bank believes that the significance of the deal goes well beyond russia's. now and with this deal there's. greater sign of openness of the sector a little regard for foreign investment and bad i think should be a trigger for greater capital inflows into russia russia's inflows of the are still around fifty percent lower than what we've seen before the crisis so i think this could precisely be one of those triggers that could finally change the situation with respect to the capital flows issue with respect to russia. come

and according to russia's vice premier eager to see action the black sea project could grow in the future into. is it getting to keep in the development of the oil fields in the united states and at least six projects including in texas and in the gulf of mexico so this is a great opportunity for you have to in terms of its global expansion ends in terms of the exchange of experience and no house with exxon mobil which is considered to be the biggest oil company in the world. ross that will hold a sixty six percent stake in the joint venture while mobile will keep the rust or softness of all that from deutsche bank believes that the significance of the deal goes well beyond russia's energy sector. now with this deal there's. greater sign of the openness of this sector with regard to foreign investment and that i think should be a trigger for greater capital inflows into russia which in turn is quite important because until recently the inflow of foreign capital was very subdued and russia's inflows of f.b.i. are still around fifty percent lower than what we've seen before the crisi

and according to russian officials this project of the black sea project could grow in the future and. it will be part of at least six now oil development projects in the united states and in the gulf of mexico so this is a great opportunity for the two companies to exchange their experience and no house in the oil development business. more on this deal in our business school attack coming up next. hello and a very warm welcome and of course we started with a huge deal between russia's role snapped and us x. mobile the crimps will help to significantly increase crossness presence in the u.s. markets will also draw a line and long lasting quest for a partner to develop the russian arctic shelf it was thoughtless of all it from butcher buying believes the deal has a strategic importance for the country's energy sector. generally this is something bad will raise the attractiveness of russia as well and. with the universe so to say until recently for a century all of last year the. month of russia's stock market was plagued by uncertainty including in the tax year there were other pr

investors and companies do not forget back quickly having said that this tasty morsel of both the black sea and the arctic was just too too juicy for exxon to resist really and i think it as with anything it's a risk in return the return from getting into this area would be huge and therefore exxon is willing to take the risks of doing business in russia but still comes just months after the british role giant b.p. fails to secure a similar russian company now b.p. is stuck in lawsuits with the russian partners so what impact does it make on the british major. port would be. he is one of the biggest most important part is business is the russian business and yet it's not longer had fits it's in terrible relations with its russian partners and that we can feel in the sort of court cases rumbling on of the battle of words that we see in the news papers so you know b.p. what company is it after the gulf of mexico oil spill after the the deal with rosneft hard with bad relations with its current russian partners what are you buying if you choose to invest in b. well you've got a good dividend b

to, yeah, they have discovered 11 shipwrecks in the black sea and in the adriatic and we should have this program in our schools and we really need to get on that. so that was a wonderful opportunity and thanks aspca. the last thingsy wanted to acknowledge that our parliamentarian celebrated her 92nd birthday on august 15. [applause] send our demrations -- congratulations. ♪ happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday dear ms. wilson happy birthday to you and many more ♪ [applause] >> brains of the operation, if i might add. vice president yee: commissioner maufas was real brave. she left her microphone on to be word recorded. any other reports? commissioner murase: i just want to announce that the green school yard conference is happening here in san francisco , september 16 to 18 and many of our schools will be featured as part of that conference. last week vice president yee and i were at the benefit and there was a really lovely performance by school children and it makes us very proud of our school children who are engaged in that project. and i also received mate

danny was left holding that ring on the black sea, took another tour with a foreign affair and struckut again. cary was head over heels for helen after she asked him for an ipod, a juicer and medication for her mother. still, he sold all his belongings in phoenix and moved to ukraine. he told us women are a lot less interested in american men who don't have an american home. in the end, howow often does reality really meet expectation in your world? if o >> quite often. but it doesn't happen right away. you have to open yourself up to the opportunity that's there. you go over and you meet someone, you may fall in love, but it may not work. that's love. that happens here, happens there, happens everywhere. but if you keep going, if you keep trying, sooner or later, you can find the right person. >> as long as there is loneliness, fantasy and global income disparity, that sales pitch will probably work. we've got an very strong opinion on my twitter stream @bi stream @billweirabc. love to hear what you think. thank you for watching abc news. "gma" will have the very latest in the mornin

gorbachev was on holiday by the black sea. when he refused to join the plotters, he was under house arrest. >> they surrounded us with cars down by the seashore and everywhere. at the entrance, they parked cars and nobody could drive past. >> in moscow, crowds flocked to protect the fledgling democracy. the coup leaders panicked and their plot crumbled. in the aftermath, the soviet union soon collapsed and swept gorbachev from office. today in berlin, gorbachev is greeted as a hero in helping end the cold war and bringing down the berlin wall, but his concern now is russia's current prime minister, vladimir putin, who said he says -- who he says should not stand again as president. >> putin and his team offer stability, but stability killed development and results in stagnation. the electoral system we had was nothing remarkable, but they have castrated it. i apologize for my choice of words, but they have circumcised it. >> russia, he says, needs to get back on the path to democracy, and put it is not the leader to do it. --

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