Vladivostok Novosti Company

Issue 147 :: Thursday, August 7, 1997

Social life Babushka nation

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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Social life Health chief quits, cites "crisis"

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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Social life Phew! Trash strike over

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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Social life Rat hotels

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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Social life Rat overpopulation in city

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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Social life Rat population swells

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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