PHOTO: Yury Maltsev
Polluted bay: The bottom of Zolotoi Rog is a dead zone.
Pollution drops in krai
By Nonna Chernyakova
The good news is the environments getting better. But hold the celebrations.
Library lends foreign books
By Nonna Chernyakova
Just finished your last book? The International Room of the Gorky Library operates a lending service, with books in English, German and Japanese.
Fleet sails to the rescue
The Vladivostok
The Pacific Fleet command has assigned a boat to shuttle between Russky Island and mainland Vladivostok three times a day, providing relief for an island that has faced with food shortages and medical emergencies since public ferries stopped running.
Murders rack krai
The Vladivostok
Four slayings hit Primorye Jan. 11, including a woman found in a refrigerator and a 70-year-old man beaten to death by bums.
Chinese force down Aeroflot jet
Chinese officials and Aeroflot are blaming each other in the wake of an incident in which the military forced down a passenger jet that crossed Chinese airspace.
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Jan. 29, 1998
Russky boats running -- for now
By Nick Wadhams
Ferry service to Russky Island resumed Jan. 24 after a three-week hiatus that left residents without medical services, food, and transportation to and from the mainland.
But the solution is only a temporary one for the island suburb of Vladivostok.
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Jan. 26, 1998
Illegal Iranians slip to Japan
By Vladimir Kunitsyn
The Vladivostok
Vladivostok border guards last year detained over 100 Middle Easterners, mostly Iranians, who use the city as a stepping stone to illegally entering Japan.
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Jan. 23, 1998
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Nuke workers win belated victory ... Primorye 7th in narcotics ... Hard winter hits north ... Court hears Kondratov suit against governor ...
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On thin ice: Saving the fishermen
By Russell Working
Last March a watcher posted in a car near the Okean Restaurant spotted them, 13 ice fishermen adrift on a floe that had broken off and was moving toward the Sea of Japan.
He radioed the Sanatornaya Rescue Station for help, and Capt. Valery Pris -- a rough-hewn man in a camouflage uniform and oversized fur hat -- fired up the 120-horsepower Gepard hydrofoil and raced out to save the men from the ice.
Truckers stealing timber
The Vladivostok
Timber theft has skyrocketed in Krasnoarmeysky County since police closed a post that used to check truck drivers' permits to transport logs.
Briefs:
Seven killed in Japanese fishing boat accident ... Unpaid miners threaten to block Trans-Siberian ... Cat eats dog in village ... and other news
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