International cooperation and working out a complex of measures for protection of the Caspian region's ecosystem

The article is devoted to the detailed analysis of the basic problems of Caspian's single ecosystem conservation and description of international programmes on unification of efforts of all five riparian countries, namely: Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Islamic Republic of Iran. Special attention is paid to the geopolitical situation in connection with changes of legal status of the Caspian Sea. The article displays the negative tendencies of ecosystem's deterioration, coming out during the last decades in the whole region. It is showed that future of the Caspian's unique ecosystem depends on cooperation and activities' efficiency of the governments of all five littoral countries.

Caspian region, environmental and economic problems, environmental protection, international programmes, international legal status