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　　Fridays are awesome! I'm Carl Azuz. This is CNNSTUDENT NEWS.

　　You're daily 10-minute breakdown of world events.

　　We're starting with news concerning Russia.

　　The world's largest country in land area is building upits military presence in the Black Sea.

　　Russia borders part of this body of water.

　　It also controversially annexed Crimea in 2014.

　　The peninsula houses a significant Russian seaport in the Black Sea.

　　Also in the region, the U.S. has sent several F-22 Raptor warplanes to Romania, anotherborder country of the sea.

　　So, what's the significance of all this?

　　Well, relations between the U.S. and Russia are at a low point.

　　And America has been showing for its allies in the region, who were members of NATO.

　　The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a group of countries that banded together after WorldWar II to balance out the military strength of the Soviet Union.

　　So, a military buildup in the Black Sea is like an international show of power.

　　Black Sea tensions.

　　The Black Sea has become one of the most hotly contested and heavily militarized regions.

　　This is not a new phenomenon.

　　For hundreds of years, Russia has seen the Black Sea as strategically vital, and if you take alook at a map, it's not hard to see why this Black Sea is so strategically valuable to Russia.

　　Firstly, it acts essentially as a bridge between two continents, a gateway between Europe andthe Middle East, and it also provides crucial access to the Mediterranean and to oceans beyond.

　　That gives it value commercially, but also gives it importance militarily.

　　And if you take a look at the conflict in Syria, you can see that the Black Sea provides a vitalstrategic and logistics hub to the Russians who are carrying out military activities in thatconflict there.

　　Now, if you also take a look at the other countries that are bordering the Black Sea.

　　It will help you understand the situation a little bit better-Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Georgiaand Turkey.

　　With the exception of Turkey, all of the were either Soviet states or part of the Soviet bloc,and with Georgia and Ukraine aspiring to move closer to NATO, Russia is increasinglysurrounded by treaty allies.

　　Russia has said again and again that it strongly believes that former Soviet republics shouldremain under the Russian sphere of influence and it has also been complaining for decadesabout what it calls NATO aggression, essentially that Western Alliance which it sees aspushing up aggressively against Russia's borders.

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