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| by Nick Wadhams |
08/30/97 02:18 PM |
| The first babushka wouldn't stop talking to her cat. Another told me that I couldn't come home after 9 p.m. A third woman's energetic male dog became very friendly with my leg. |
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| by Nonna Chernyakova |
08/30/97 02:16 PM |
| The woman seems to be almost shy when she starts the ritual, but the instinct is stronger than her outward emotions - she becomes the fire herself, and ignites everything around her. |
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| by Russell Working |
08/30/97 02:16 PM |
| The Moscow Circus of Parodies has announced it expects gymnasts and panthers to join its program. That's a good thing, because right now, animal and tumbling acts are limited. You can have your photo taken with a monkey that cringes like an abused child every time its keeper shakes her fist. You can send your kid for a ride during intermission on a very male stallion that seems to be enjoying the trot far more than the circumstances call for. And you can watch two rowdy clowns run around like drunks at a New York City policeman's banquet. But the traditional fare of a circus, lions and high wire acts, are missing. |
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| by Heidi Brown |
08/30/97 02:15 PM |
| What's good about the new Hyundai Hotel is also what's bad: Walking through the main entrance literally seals off the outside world. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
08/30/97 02:14 PM |
| South Korea could help nudge Primorye into the Pacific Rim economy. But despite investments like Hyundai's new hotel, not everyone thinks Russia is worth the risk. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
08/30/97 02:13 PM |
| "Sailors really should start caring for their own fate," said Pyotr Osichansky, local representative of the International Transport Workers Federation.
Dozens of Russian ships are being held in ports all over the world. Crews come home after months or even years of "arrest" in foreign ports, and they bring the remains of colleagues who committed suicide in despair. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
08/30/97 02:13 PM |
| The city can breathe a sigh of relief that the garbage strike is resolved - for now. For five weeks, heaps of trash clogged streets and alleyways. Vladivostok was fouled not only by trash (and by the rats dining on it), but by malodor recalling a barbecue of rancid food as well-meaning citizens got rid of trash by burning it.
It is fitting, though, that such an ugly incident in urban life concluded with more of the trashy politics we have come to expect of our civic leaders. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
08/30/97 02:12 PM |
| The recent military conversion exhibition in Vladivostok was surely a sign of change afoot: You can't argue that a nuclear submarine factory proffering sausages isn't trying to change its tune.
But it did seem that defense companies aren't ready for a true wave of conversion to break away from dependence on military rubles. And although it's easy to apply the "better late than never" truism, 1997 is a fairly late date for manufacturers only to begin thinking about entering new markets. |
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| by Stan Danysh, University of Alaska Anchorage |
08/30/97 02:11 PM |
| Dump the garbage on city hall steps? Open a fast food outlet for rats? In issue 146, Talk Back was looking for ways to get rid the trash that was piling up around town. But Stan Danysh went beyond mere disposal, to suggest how to keep future garbage pileups from occurring. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
08/30/97 02:10 PM |
| Companies involved in the shipping industry recently learned about international networking at an exhibition that had a distinctly Russian flair. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
08/30/97 02:09 PM |
| Good news: Customs is raking in the rubles
Far Eastern customs slightly exceeded its projected revenue intake in the first six months of 1997, collecting 1402 billion rubles ($245.9 million). It sent 20.3 billion rubles ($3.5 million) to the federal budget from the sale of seized goods, and more than 700 billion rubles ($122.8 million) went to customs infrastructure development. |
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| Andrew Chapman and Claire Newman |
08/30/97 02:08 PM |
| Russia's new tax code, currently awaiting debate before a now-vacationing State Duma, may come into effect in January 1998. Employers, however, can reduce assignment costs by taking steps before that date. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
08/30/97 02:07 PM |
| With one exhibition over and three more scheduled this year, krai officials are hoping to wake Primorye defense companies from their post-Soviet advertising slumber. |
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| by Nonna Chernyakova |
08/30/97 02:06 PM |
| The International Transport Workers Federation suspended the Water Transport Workers' Trade Union of Russia July 18 for failing to comply with the federation's codes of conduct. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
08/30/97 02:05 PM |
| Krai semi-precious metal manufacturer DalPolyMetall will resume selling its lead and zinc concentrate abroad after a three-month standstill, thanks to a decree signed last week by President Yeltsin. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
08/30/97 02:03 PM |
| Committee orders shooting of park's bears
Two young Himalayan bears were legally shot and killed in their cage in a city park in mid-July. Misha and Masha, popular with young children, had been living in dirty, cramped quarters for two years in Mingorodok Park after a poacher shot their mother. The federal environmental protection committee ordered the shooting after ruling that the bears were a danger to humans and that their living conditions were intolerable. |
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| by Heidi Brown |
08/30/97 02:03 PM |
| Vladivostok's public health situation has reached a critical level, the city's public health director said July 31 at a press conference announcing that he and his 40-member department were resigning. |
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| by Heidi Brown |
08/30/97 02:02 PM |
| Vladivostok's striking trash collection company went back to work Aug. 5, following a promise from Governor Yevgeny Nazdratenko to pay at least six months of back wages in the next 10 days. The garbage company, SpetsAvtoKhyaistvo, stopped work July 1 after Vladivostok Mayor Victor Cherepkov refused to sign a contract, disputing how much the city should pay for SAK's services. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
08/30/97 02:01 PM |
| After Governor Yevgeny Nazdratenko ended the garbage strike by paying some back wages, Mayor Victor Cherepkov issued an angry response. The statement alludes to krai plans to discredit the mayor and bring down his political rating, which the Federal Security Bureau uncovered in a raid on a krai policy office in June. |
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| by Heidi Brown |
08/30/97 02:00 PM |
| American theater director Mark Williams visited Vladivostok the last week of July to cast Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" for the Chamber Theater. |
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| by Russell Working |
08/30/97 01:59 PM |
| Lada and Akhan, two polar dolphins, swim through a floating pen littered with popcorn, candy wrappers and a stick from an ice cream bar - and coated with a sheen of rainbow-colored oil. |
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| by Anatoly Medetsky |
08/30/97 01:57 PM |
| Cossacks from around Primorye and Kamchatka recently received formal permission to become a part of the federal administration under a decree from President Yeltsin. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
08/30/97 01:55 PM |
| Here are the buildings deemed most in need of rat extermination (they are not numbered in order of importance). Hospitals and clinics are listed first, followed by schools, then city-owned housing. The city has set aside an emergency fund of 110 million rubles ($19,298) to kill rodents at these buildings. The extermination should clear out the rodents for two months. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
08/30/97 01:55 PM |
| The following is a letter from the city's chief sanitary physician to Mayor Victor Cherepkov. For a list of the city's most rat-infested sites, see below. |
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| by Russell Working |
08/30/97 01:53 PM |
| Cuts in city funding to exterminate rats have caused an explosion of the disease-bearing pests in homes, schools and hospitals this year. |
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