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Monday, May 12, 2008

Special reports Jet downed by partner’s missile

Combined reports 03/27/08 04:50 PM
An Su-25 military jet aircraft which exploded March 20 in the Russian Far East while performing a training flight might have been accidentally hit by a missile fired from another plane, investigators said.
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Crime watch Hypnotized man swindled

Combined reports 03/27/08 04:49 PM
A Vladivostok resident, who was robbed of 4,500 rubles ($188) in the street by two Gypsies in what he claims to be a result of hypnosis, later came across them and reported them to the local police.
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Special reports 2 killed by avalanche in Yakutia

Combined reports 03/26/08 06:09 PM
Rescuers have evacuated a group of tourists by helicopter in the Far Eastern region of Yakutia after an avalanche struck, leaving two people dead and one injured on Tuesday, emergency officials reported.
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Crime watch Ex-traffic officer kills 3 people on road

The Vladivostok 03/26/08 06:08 PM
Vladivostok police are investigating the criminal case launched against former deputy head of Primorye Traffic Police Vasily Goncharuk who killed three people in two separate traffic accidents but so far has not taken any responsibility.
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Special reports Rotten caviar confiscated

The Vladivostok News 03/26/08 06:07 PM
Specialists from Russia’s agricultural watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor seized five tons of caviar with expired shelf-life in Vladivostok, a statement from Primorye’s Department of Rosselkhoznadzor reported Wednesday.
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Vladivostok residents choose to buy cheaper bread from a food truck arriving from the town of Ussurisk after the Vladivostok bread monopoly Vladkhleb increased the cost for the most popular sort of bread, Podolsky, by 25 percent. On Monday, Primorye’s Governor Sergei Darkin signed a swift agreement with the region’s major trade and food companies to freeze prices for first-necessity food products such as bread, milk, vegetable oil and eggs.

Photo by Vladimir Pavlov

Vladivostok residents choose to buy cheaper bread from a food truck arriving from the town of Ussurisk after the Vladivostok bread monopoly Vladkhleb increased the cost for the most popular sort of bread, Podolsky, by 25 percent. On Monday, Primorye’s Governor Sergei Darkin signed a swift agreement with the region’s major trade and food companies to freeze prices for first-necessity food products such as bread, milk, vegetable oil and eggs.

Special reports Far East envoy demands intensive crime efforts

The Vladivostok News 03/25/08 07:37 PM
Law enforcement organizations have not applied all their resources to make anti-crime efforts in the Russian Far East systematic and active, the presidential envoy to the region Oleg Safonov told reporters in Khabarovsk on Tuesday.
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Crime watch Drug transporter detained

The Vladivostok News 03/25/08 07:37 PM
Russian Far East transport police detained a female drug courier who was carrying 18.3 kilograms of heroin to Primorye on a passenger train, the biggest batch of the drug seized in Russia so far this year.
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Crime watch International smugglers charged

The Vladivostok News 03/25/08 07:36 PM
On March 31, Primorye’s regional court will begin hearings in the case concerning a Russian-Chinese criminal group which attempted to smuggle the skin and bones of an Amur tiger and an assortment of bear claws, prosecutors said.
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Special reports Street snack sends students to hospital

The Vladivostok News 03/25/08 09:37 PM
Primorye’s Department of Russia’s consumer watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, has begun inspections of Vladivostok’s fast food street outlets, after 34 people were hospitalized with salmonella infections after consuming shaverma at one of the local kiosks.
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Issue 611, March 18, 2008

Vladivostok by Braille Vladivostok Fast Food: Time to go Vegetarian

By Brian Roche 03/21/08 06:05 PM
I grew up in the United States so I know a good hamburger when I see one and one of my first questions upon arriving in Vladivostok regarded the fast food situation. I rejoiced to hear that there were several restaurants that mimicked Western chains but soon realized that I would not be frequenting these places.
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Social life Russians reveal employment attitudes

The Vladivostok News 03/21/08 06:04 PM
Most employed Russians are afraid of losing their jobs, a recent poll by the National Public Opinion Studies Center VTsIOM revealed.
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Special reports Military jet crashes, pilot killed

Combined reports 03/21/08 06:03 PM
An investigative unit from the Far Eastern Military Prosecutor’s Office has launched an inspection into the crash of a Su-25 military jet aircraft which occurred in central Primorye on Thursday, killing the pilot.
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Special reports Measures taken to ease soaring bread prices

The Vladivostok News 03/21/08 12:00 PM
Russia’s Grain Insurance Fund will sell 12,000 tons of grain to the country’s Far Eastern region of Primorye in order to stabilize the skyrocketing prices for bread, with some varieties last week seeing increases of 25 percent, the Agriculture Minister Alexei Gordeyev said Wednesday.
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Business Vladivostok awaits construction bids announcement

Combined reports 03/21/08 11:57 AM
Bids for preparing feasibility studies for the projects planned to be constructed for the APEC summit in Vladivostok will be announced open starting April 1, the federal officials said after the meeting in Moscow on Wednesday.
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Social life France, Primorye to boost links

The Vladivostok News 03/19/08 05:37 PM
Primorye Governor Sergei Darkin and Stanislas de Laboulaye, the French Ambassador to Russia, on Monday in Vladivostok signed an agreement of intentions to develop cultural and educational cooperation between the Primorye region and France.
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Business Swiss to invest in Sakhalin project

The Vladivostok News 03/19/08 05:36 PM
A Swiss company will construct a hotel and a sports complex in the Far Eastern region of Sakhalin, a $50 million project that was agreed upon at last week’s 2008 MIPIM World’s Property Market in Cannes, France.
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Special reports Candidates for Vladivostok mayor boast prominent names

The Vladivostok News 03/19/08 05:35 PM
Two months before mayoral elections in Vladivostok, six people have announced their intention to compete for the key post of the city with two of the names being Cherevkov and Nikolayeva.
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Social life Soldiers’ graves and memorial neglected

By Lubov Berchanskaya 03/18/08 07:31 PM
As a result of desolation and construction, Vladivostok’s memorial cemetery to soldiers who died in the Battle of Lake Khasan in southern Primorye 70 years ago, is surrounded by weeds, loam and rocks.
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