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News

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 called the Sanatornaya rescue station, which tackles such emergencies every winter.

Business

Fur fashion
By Russell Working
Tear your hair out if you like, animal rights activists. Vladivostok is crazy about fur, and Mink is its biggest producer.

Editorial

Rats! New York has it worse than we do
We were strangely cheered by a New Yorker description of an encounter with rats in America's most sophisticated city.

Focus

Stranded
By Nikolai Kutenkikh
Residents of Russky Island struggle to cop in a city without public ferry service.

Jan. 29, 1998
Unpaid workers block Trans-Siberian
By Russell Working
Workers waving Communist flags and red banners blocked the Trans-Siberian Railroad tracks near Vladivostok Jan. 27 in an effort to get Moscow's attention and receive their back wages.

Lifestyle

Strike! Bowling alley opens
By Russell Working
You could almost be in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, or Memphis, Tennessee, and you're tempted to look around for big-bellied guys named Bubba and Don swilling pitchers of beer and getting up every so often to roll a ball down the alley.

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Published by Vladivostok Novosty, Ltd.

Editor, Russell Working. Deputy editor, Nonna Chernyakova. Reporter, Nick Wadhams. Translators, Anatoly Medetsky. Layout, Igor Chorny.
Advertising, Tiffany Wright and Yelena Dubova.