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| by Russell Working |
10/02/97 03:27 PM |
| During a recent visit to European Russia I felt oddly at home seeing security guards in shoe stores and airline ticket offices. |
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| by Heidi Brown |
10/02/97 03:26 PM |
| Lenin’s bas-relief head peeked out from the dented metal frieze above the stage, and dried glue shone from where it had dripped from lanterns on the chipped walls. But the music – despite a few slips by the soloists – was no less enchanting at the opening of the Philharmonic Society’s 1997-98 season. The Sept. 30 concert brought out a standing-room-only crowd, who were so captivated by the players’ enthusiastic playing they didn’t seem to notice the stage’s warped wooden floorboards. |
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| by Lucy Jones |
10/02/97 03:24 PM |
| Radioactive waste may be causing illness and deformities, but residents of Baley feel there is no escape.
Baley is a town of 25,000 in the Chita region 200 km north of China.
The Soviet Union used thorium and uranium mined at the top-secret Enterprise 1084 to make its first atomic bomb.
Radioactive tailings were used as construction materials in homes, nurseries, schools and the hospital.
95 percent of Baley’s children are “mentally deficient.”
Doctors in Baley, a small gold mining town in the Far Eastern region of Chita, had always puzzled over the high incidence of babies born with missing limbs, bald children and adults with huge heads. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
10/02/97 03:23 PM |
| Tornadoes hit the city. Hunger strikers have been protesting unpaid wages. And the off-and-on power and water cuts give a grim hint of what might be in store for the winter. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
10/02/97 03:22 PM |
| Has Primorye’s duma entered a time tunnel, or is it just a living example of the old saying: Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it? |
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| The Vladivostok News |
10/02/97 03:21 PM |
| Sakhalin seeks loan
The Russian government recently encouraged Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk officials to apply for a $65 million loan for new equipment and renovation of the city’s airport. Federal officials reported that a loan from the Export-Import Bank of Japan would greatly assist the economic development of the region. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
10/02/97 03:20 PM |
| DalRybBank will install 16 automatic teller machines in Vladivostok, Nakhodka, and Ussurisk by the start of next year, according to bank Deputy Director Aleksei Drobishevsky. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
10/02/97 03:20 PM |
| Khabarovsk will finally become a part of Russia’s growing cellular phone network when recently established phone company Khabarovsk Sotovaya Telefone begins operation later this month. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
10/02/97 03:19 PM |
| Russian aviation company officials met for the first time Sept. 30 to discuss pressuring the federal government for promised funds aimed at attracting more business on cross-country airline flights. |
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| by Nonna Chernyakova |
10/02/97 03:18 PM |
| Once destitute and unemployed, Larisa Rakul has become one of the most successful businesswomen in Nakhodka. And she has bigger plans for the future. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
10/02/97 03:17 PM |
| Abused woman found dead in Lipovtsy
The body of 43-year-old Chinese woman was found near the Ilchevka settlement in Oktyabrsky area Sept. 23. Police say the woman died of physical abuse a few days before her body was found. She lived in the Lipovtsy settlement and was involved in reselling goods. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
10/02/97 03:16 PM |
| Krai demands city vote
The krai electoral commission and the city prosecutor have begun pressuring Mayor of Vladivostok Victor Cherepkov to set a date for city duma elections, saying that not doing so violates the right of city residents to elect and be elected. Vladivostok has not had a duma since Cherepkov took office in 1994. But the krai duma officially suspended the mayor Sept. 26, which means that Vice Mayor Yuri Kopylov, whom the krai named acting mayor, should be the one to set a date — if he’s indeed the mayor now. |
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| by Heidi Brown |
10/02/97 03:15 PM |
| Power cuts are unlikely in Primorye this winter if an administrative plan of cooperation holds up, said a high-ranking federal energy official on a visit to Vladivostok Oct. 2. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
10/02/97 03:14 PM |
| Krai officials, national figures, and former stars gathered in Vladivostok Sept. 27 and 28 to participate in a tennis tournament commemorating the 65th anniversary of the Pacific Fleet. |
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| by Heidi Brown |
10/02/97 03:13 PM |
| A new political party will attempt to improve the economy of the Russian Far East — and give a voice to the thousands of legal ethnic immigrants living here. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
10/02/97 03:12 PM |
| When power went off at 8 p.m. Sept. 25, a few Vladivostok reporters set out on a reconnaissance mission – to find out which Vladivostok VIPs suffered blackouts, and which enjoyed the luxury of light. |
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| by Russell Working |
10/02/97 03:11 PM |
| A controversial new federal law limiting the activities of some religious groups has left Primorye churches and officials unsure of how it will affect local believers. |
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| by Heidi Brown |
10/02/97 02:55 PM |
| Eleven men of varied ages lay stretched out on a pallet of blankets in the union’s main auditorium. One played guitar; others lay propped on their elbows, talking strike strategy in subdued tones. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
10/02/97 02:41 PM |
| The following laws were passed by the Primorye Duma in its attempt to strip the powers of Mayor Victor Cherepkov. Decree No. 705 targets Cherepkov by name. In an effort to lay the legal groundwork for that action, the duma passed Decree No. 704. Scroll further down, and you'll see the response from the mayor's office. |
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| by Heidi Brown |
10/02/97 02:39 PM |
| The krai duma suspended Vladivostok Mayor Victor Cherepkov from his duties and appointed his deputy to carry out his work Sept. 26, but the embattled mayor has vowed to ignore the decision and remain in office. |
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| by Heidi Brown |
10/02/97 02:38 PM |
| A publishing company stationed a line of trucks and a crowd of angry printing press workers outside Vladivostok's main newspaper complex Oct. 2, preventing a rival landlord from claiming the six-story building in First River. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
10/02/97 02:37 PM |
| Gunmen shot and killed local Mafia boss Mikhail "Mikho" Osipov as he walked into the Hyundai Hotel at 10 p.m. Oct. 4, creating a power vacuum that some fear will open the region to criminals from around Russia eager to cash in on the area's wealth of resources. |
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