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No. 241 December 29, 2000
New Year bomb scare
By Anatoly Medetsky
City authorities tightened security as they received an anonymous letter threatening to blow up a Vladivostok school on New Year's eve if the police don't release all Chechens from a local prison, the city hall said December 23.
Photo by the Vladivostok
Workers install New Year tree on the main square. |
Apartment dwellers turn to wood stoves to survive cold
By Anatoly Medetsky
FABRICHNY - Wearing a fur hat and a winter coat, 82-year-old Alexei Sanin sat down to eat his sandwich in his kitchen - fully dressed as if he were ready for a subzero outing in this forlorn village in Russia's frozen Far East.
Heating crisis to bury governor's career?
By Anatoly Medetsky
Federal officials have suggested that the president may remove Primorye Governor Yevgeny Nazdratenko from his post because of the heating crisis in his region.
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Published by Vladivostok Novosti, Ltd.
Editor, Anatoly Medetsky.
Translation and layout,
Roman Dyablov.
Copy editors,
Ryan Tvedt, Lara Hueth.
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