No. 170 June 26, 1998

Updated June 30. Defense workers continue protest at krai headquarters Vasily Fedorchenko By Janina de Guzman and Mike Eckel Workers from one of Primorye's most recognized defense factories entered their seventh day of protest in front of the krai administration building June 30. Incensed by mounting wage arrears, job cutbacks, and a sharp decrease in military and federal contracts, the 30-odd workers from Bolshoi Kamen's Zvezda shipyard chanted slogans, banged hard hats in cadence, and berated passing deputies of the krai duma attending the monthly session of the regional legislative body.

Russia, China eager for trade growth By Russell Working SUIFENHE, China--Two hundred meters into the People's Republic of China are a pyramid-shaped archway and mirror-windowed shopping complex where Russian tourists can make last-minute purchases on their way home. (This is part of a special China series by the Vladivostok News. Click to see our China page.) Health care reformers push clinics By Janina de Guzman In the Krai Consultative Policlinic on Aleutskaya Street, the hallways are narrow and the tile floors chipped and uneven. There is no elevator, and frail patients struggle up four flights of stairs to reach the office of Assistant Chief Physician Lyudmilla Shmakova. Missionary offers hugs and borsch By Janina de Guzman A scruffy-looking bunch of kids files into Stolovaya No. 2 for soup, fish, bread and tea. They eat hungrily, slurping borsch, while 27-year-old Rachael Hughes administers hugs and multi-vitamins from a zip-lock bag. Canadian ships sail into port By Janina de Guzman Perhaps they weren't greeted with the rock star reception of their 1990 visit -- the first by any foreign navy to Vladivostok since World War II -- but the Canadian sailors who docked in Vladivostok from June 11-15 received plenty of attention. Mayoral and city duma elections to proceed By Janina de Guzman While City Duma elections should proceed as scheduled July 12, Mayor Viktor Cherepkov announced that mayoral elections would be held on September 27. Radio show links families, sailors By Russell Working VLADIVOSTOK, Far East -- It's 6:19 p.m. in a fourth-floor broadcast studio of the State Television and Radio Station Corporation's Far East headquarters, and the phones are already ringing. Guard kills 2 over cell phone The Vladivostok A drunken employee of the Vladivostok Railroad Protection Paramilitary Unit shot dead a store guard and a customer near the Second River train station June 17 because he believed the guard stole his mobile phone, police said. Briefs and Crime Watch: Tick disease kills 2...Israelis nab Vlad hacker...Workers unpaid for years...and other news [Back to the top]  [Back to Front page]  [Write to us] © copyright 1998 the Vladivostok News. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed in any form.