Thousands protest downtown

By Mike Eckel and Russell Working
Under a motley collection of placards, banners, and hammers and sickles, an estimated 3,000 people gathered on the city's central square Oct. 7 to protest wage arrears and to demand a change in the course of reforms that have promised much and yielded little for the average Primorian.

Protests hit cities throughout Far East
By Russell Working
and Nonna Chernyakova
Vladivostok wasn't the only Far Eastern city to see large-scale protests amid the nation-wide demonstrations Wednesday.

Duma offers support for food producers
By Anatoly Medetsky
Yevgenia Ivanova, 63, wanders around a Vladivostok grocery where the shelves are filled with imported foods: tea, vegetable oil, cookies, meat, and other products.

Mayor runs for City Duma
By Mike Eckel
A Vladivostok election just wouldn't be the same without controversy.
With nine days remaining before elections for the city's first legislative body since 1993, the campaign for City Duma elections is attracting complaints, criticism, and even doubts of whether the they will even be legal to begin with.

Election tangled in legal red tape
By Mike Eckel
Twelve days after Vladivostok voters overwhelmingly rejected all candidates for the post of mayor, the elections remain mired in legal rulings, with no end in sight.

Dalenergo leaves city shivering
By Nonna Chernyakova
A long-standing dispute between regional energy utility Dalenergo and the Vladivostok Mayor's Office will be solved within 15 days, according to Andrei Rapopport, deputy head of the Unified Energy System, the utility's parent company.

Click here to see the front page of our print edition.		Click here to see our classifieds.