 Police force Cherepkov supporters from City Hall
By Nonna Chernyakova
Police working for acting Mayor Yury Kopylov forced former Mayor Viktor Cherepkov's supporters from City Hall Tuesday, ending a weeks-long occupation of the building.
Hunger Artists
 By Russell Working
Partizansk, a city of 63,000 in the Russian Far Eastern region of Primorye, is noteworthy mainly for its abundance of poplars, a favorite subject of the Russian formalist painters.
Primorye to guarantee two banks
By Anatoly Medetsky
To stabilize the crisis-strapped banking system, the Primorye Duma allowed the regional administration Dec. 28 to guarantee that two local banks will repay possible loans to the Central Bank of Russia.
Vladivostok at the year end: struggling through crisis
By Russell Working and Nonna Chernyakova
City ambulances struck for two months last summer, and thousands
of citizens were without heat this winter.
Jailed journalist to run for City Duma
By Russell Working and Nonna Chernyakova
Military and jail officials are attempting to block a navy journalist
jailed on treason charges from running for a seat on the Vladivostok
City Duma, his lawyer announced Thursday.
Vladivostok torn by dueling mayors
By Nonna Chernyakova
At City Hall, the headquarters of ousted Mayor Viktor Cherepkov, the
front entrance was barricaded Tuesday by furniture and Cossacks, while
the back door was guarded by Cherepkov's employees. About 500 loyal
employees announced they were staying in the building to prevent its
seizure by the new administration.
Forestry officials to cut the spruce quota
By Nonna Chernyakova
Forestry officials are limiting the Christmas tree harvest because hard
times have reduced the market for them in the Primorye region.
Deputy denies he bashed cop with bottle 
By Anatoly Medetsky
State Duma Deputy Vladimir Shakhov said his arrest in a bar on a
misdemeanor charge of assaulting a police officer Dec. 6 was a political
provocation before the upcoming mayoral elections in Vladivostok.
Tempers boil in unheated Far East
By Russell Working
Thousands of people are shivering in cold homes in an icy archipelago across the Far East, and the public's patience is boiling over.
Power workers end hunger strike
By Nonna Chernyakova
Twenty-two workers at Vladivostok Power Station No. 2 halted a nine-day hunger strike recently when the company began paying salaries for the past six months.
Mayor fires three aides
Combined reports
In a surprise move, Vladivostok Mayor Viktor Cherepkov fired three deputies Nov. 30, saying he had to make staff reductions. However, some observers say it is a political maneuver to free the men to run in the upcoming city district elections.
Dalenergo faces bankruptcy
By Anatoly Medetsky
Creditors of Dalenergo elected an external manager for the Primorye's debt-ridden energy utility Dec. 1, but officials say the procedure unacceptable.
Ships in the night
The Vladivostok
Rescued by a Russian trawler, some North Koreans adrift at sea found themselves trapped in Nakhodka sleeping on a barge in subzero weather.
NHK says Pasko not its responsibility
By Russell Working
Responding to charges it abandoned a journalist it worked with, NHK television said Dec. 1 that Captain Grigory Pasko was also a stringer for other media and that it isn't clear whether his treason arrest stems from the work he did for NHK.
NHK responds to Pasko questions
Drunk driver crashes crane
The Vladivostok
A mobile crane toppled and crushed an apartment block's ground-floor balconies Nov. 27 after a drunken driver hit a Zhiguli parked by the side of the road, police reported.
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