Notwithstanding having risked to be jailed for smuggling on my way from Iran to Turkey, I finally reached Van. I managed to reach it safe and free, I mean.
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Monday, April 12, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
Requiem for a paradise
"Forty years ago, Muynak was a busy fishing port where the waters of the Aral Sea lapped up against the shoreline.
Today the waters have receded so much, that there is not a drop as far as the eye can see.
When the former Soviet Union diverted the Ama Dariya and the Syrdariya - the rivers which fed the Aral Sea - to grow cotton in the desert, they created an ecological and human disaster.
Today the waters have receded so much, that there is not a drop as far as the eye can see.
When the former Soviet Union diverted the Ama Dariya and the Syrdariya - the rivers which fed the Aral Sea - to grow cotton in the desert, they created an ecological and human disaster.
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