MAMAIA, Romania -- At the age of 95, this Black Sea resort was in sore need of a facelift. Once known as the "pearl of the Black Sea," Mamaia began to lose its luster after communism collapsed in ...

The Black Sea area sits between Russia and the occupied Crimean peninsula. Anapa, a popular holiday town of some 80,000 people, was hard hit by the spill, which contaminated over 30 miles of beach.

‘We need at least 100 charter flights a day,” says Plamen Kopchev, head of the hotel owners’ association in Bulgaria’s mammoth Black Sea resort of Sunny Beach, laid waste by the coronavirus pandemic.

Full beaches on the South Black Sea coast in the first ... the tourism industry in Bulgaria is so optimistic about ... 2025 · 213405 articles · 732 interviews · 10756 pictures · 7176 ...

Bulgaria's Black Sea resorts are blaming a slump in visitor numbers on pollution fears trigged by the ecological disaster caused by the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine.

Russian mines are washing up on busy Black Sea tourist beaches, frequently exploding, and sometimes even killing holidaymakers.. As recently as Monday, a Russian mine exploded in the Romanian ...

TBILISI - Georgian authorities on Saturday decided to impose fines on those who pollute the country's Black Sea beaches at Batumi, a long-time tourist resort.

Tourists thronging the Black Sea beaches of the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula this summer share the space with a grim new arrival: bomb shelters and sandbags. For more than two years, the ...

Despite dangers and hardship of war, Ukrainians enjoy Black Sea beaches this summer This summer Ukrainians are thumbing their noses at Putin by sunbathing and swimming on Black Sea beaches that ...

MOSCOW—When Russia annexed the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea earlier this year, it regained not only harbours for its navy and abandoned Ukrainian military bases, but also long stretches of ...

Local authorities said 10,000 people helped clean up the beaches of Anapa after a severe oil spill in the Black Sea. REUTERS/Sergey Pivovarov 2025-03-11T07:54:02Z ...