Vital Caspian Graphics - Challenges Beyond Caviar

effectively halt a worrying rise in the overall and infant death rate. This setback is very noticeable all over Russia, but in much of the Caspian basin it went hand in hand with a shortage of ameni- ties, due to the distance from the country’s main economic centres. Iran is gradually catching up

Public health policies during the Soviet period eliminated several traditional diseases. But for lack of adequate investment in medi- cal equipment and drugs in the 1970s and 1980s they failed to

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