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The Diplomat (16 August 2023)

Rahimbek Abdrahmanov and Kamshat Zhumagulova

For Kazakhstan, in particular, the development of the Middle Corridor offers broader access to global markets.

On August 6, Ukraine published a coastal notification, declaring the waters of six Russian ports on the Black Sea – Anapa, Novorossiysk, Gelendzhik, Tuapse, Sochi, and Taman – as a zone of “military threat.” This happened in response to Russia’s exit last month from a deal that had allowed safe export of Ukrainian grain. Moscow announced that it would view all ships heading to Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea as carriers of military cargo, and the countries under whose flags these ships are registered as participants in the war on the side of Kyiv.

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