Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, central and eastern European countries have gained traction as tourism hotspots. Formerly communist countries now feature some Western sensibilities, still with ...

Russian scientists have detected dangerously high levels of a carcinogen in soil samples taken from beaches contaminated by the Black Sea oil spill, with one expert comparing the pollution to the U.S.

TASS/. The Crimean authorities intend to build a resort town on the Black Sea coast, the republic’s Deputy Prime Minister Yevgeny Kabanov said on the Na kryuchke television show on Friday.

NEPTUN, Romania (JTA) — Hundreds of Jewish children from Odessa shook the Romanian Black Sea resort of Neptun out of its winter lethargy with a Purim party that, at least for a little while ...

Over the past month, the popular Black Sea resort beaches of Russia’s Krasnodar region have been transformed into a scene out of a dystopian sci-fi film, with thousands of workers in white ...

Authorities in Russia’s Volgograd region and the Republic of Tatarstan have signed at least 14 government contracts for organizing “health and recreation” trips for children to the Black Sea resort ...

By Nataliya Vasilyeva Reporting from Istanbul When a 28-year-old volunteer named Nikolai stepped onto a sandy beach on Russia’s Black Sea coast ... and traveled to the resort town of Anapa ...