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| by Russell Working |
10/30/97 01:07 PM |
| Recently while heading to lunch at a cafe just off the lobby of a local office building, my girlfriend and I happened into the middle of a funeral. Perhaps a funeral isn’t quite the word — there was simply a family seated around an open casket and an aged dead man in a blue suit decorated with medals. |
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| by Nonna Chernyakova |
10/30/97 01:05 PM |
 Kim Kyong Yeoul is one of the truly talented artists who make the viewer feel the author’s fascination with every moment of life. |
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| by Russell Working |
10/30/97 01:04 PM |
 Gen. Victor Kondratov – presidential representative and head of Primorye’s FSB – acts more like a dad-in-chief than a spook. But there’s this nagging question about the constitution. |
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| V. Kurdyumov, Orekhovo, Primorsky Krai |
10/30/97 01:01 PM |
| I would like to give some advice to Joseph Hemingway (Letter to the editor, Oct. 16). |
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| The Vladivostok News |
10/30/97 01:00 PM |
| October was obviously a very fruitful month 100 years ago in Vladivostok: A lot of new ventures started in our city that time.
That’s why we celebrated so many centennials recently. People honored the 100th anniversary of the commercial port, the Trans-Siberian Railroad, Dalzavod, the Pacific Fleet Hospital, and the monument to the explorer Gennady Nevelskoi. These holidays don’t mark something momentous, like Great October Socialist revolution. But at least some people were cheerful those days, and felt some pride in the past. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
10/30/97 01:00 PM |
| Local companies show little interest in Sakhalin
A new round of contract bidding for the Sakhalin I and II oil projects will begin later this quarter and in the start of next year. Though Sakhalin production-sharing agreements require 70 percent of work to be given to Russians, foreign investors haven’t seen a great deal of interest from local companies, according to news reports. The only exception are enterprises in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, most prominently the Amursky Shipbuilding Plant, which won a $35 million contract earlier this year. Despite Primorye’s well-developed industrial complex and staggering unemployment rate, krai companies have offered few bids on Sakhalin projects, press reports said. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
10/30/97 12:59 PM |
| The Vladivostok International Business Association – a new group of English-speaking businessmen in the city – recently announced its officers. |
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| by Russell Working |
10/30/97 12:59 PM |
| Andrew Brochwicz-Lewinski – dressed in a bow-tie and blue blazer, speaking in an English accent despite the Slavic name – works for the largest importer of biscuits to Russia, and when he got to Vladivostok recently, the first thing he did was hit the kiosks. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
10/30/97 12:58 PM |
| A Primorye man has found a secret to starting business in the krai’s unhealthy economic atmosphere — buy local, retain the product’s high quality, and hire the disabled. |
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| by Russell Working |
10/30/97 12:57 PM |
| The Primorye Duma approved plans for a $1 billion oil refinery to be built near Dunai, a move it says will ease the region’s energy crisis by allowing it to process crude oil from abroad and eventually from Sakhalin. |
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| by Nonna Chernyakova |
10/30/97 12:55 PM |
 Primorye markets will have to sign contracts with Chinese trading companies, rather than letting individual merchants sell their goods, under a new decree from the krai administration. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
10/30/97 12:55 PM |
| Not long ago, Japan presented a sculpture to the city of Nakhodka – a statue of a woman and a dove. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
10/30/97 12:54 PM |
| Uh-oh: Gang leader slips away before trial
The krai court began hearing the case of Nakhodka criminal group VAPS on Oct. 24. Eighteen gang members, including its leader, were arrested in early 1994 after an extensive investigation by the Nakhodka Criminal Investigation Department, the Federal Security Bureau, and the Krai Prosecutor’s Office. Since then, however, the gang’s leader escaped and remains unfound. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
10/30/97 12:53 PM |
| Highway should ease traffic into town
A new highway in Vladivostok will make access to the city center easier. The road links two major transport arteries in the Pervomaisky District and will be part of a new bus route. Construction took two months. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
10/30/97 12:52 PM |
| A California woman’s recent trip to Primorye has anchored her medical relief organization in the region, and she will now train her sights on American coffers for supporting funds. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
10/30/97 12:52 PM |
| Gunmen shot and killed a police officer while he walked his dog at midnight Oct 22. No attackers have been found, though police know two license plate numbers of the escape vehicle, local press reported. |
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| by Russell Working |
10/30/97 12:51 PM |
| The presidential representative to Primorye temporarily headed off a crisis in the health care system by securing 10 billion rubles ($169,491) from the federal government for maternity wards and children’s hospitals. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
10/30/97 12:50 PM |
| Bangladesh announced the opening of a consular office in Vladivostok Oct 23. The post is not a full consulate, but is designed to facilitate ties in the Far East, said Consul of Honor Alexander Zubko, who is a Russian citizen. |
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| by Russell Working |
10/30/97 12:47 PM |
 Faced with resistance from the krai prosecutor and defiance from the mayor, the Primorye Duma canceled a September decree stripping Mayor Victor Cherepkov of his powers and appointing a deputy to act in his place. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
10/30/97 12:45 PM |
| Workers at the water plant in Artyom are threatening to strike for eight months of back pay, a move which could cripple Vladivostok’s water supply for weeks, said plant director Sergei Kislitsin. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
10/30/97 04:08 PM |
| Ever wondered about the size of Gov. Yevgeny Nazdratenko’s apartment? Or which krai administration bigwigs get dachas in the country? Here’s the list of the property and income they declared at of Jan. 1, 1997. But when a krai vice governor says he’s earning $4,802 per year, well, it’s time to consider the source – the Krai Human Resources Department. |
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| The Dalenergo Strike Committee |
10/30/97 04:07 PM |
| A letter to Mayor Victor Cherepkov |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
10/30/97 04:06 PM |
| Retired engineer Alexander Dimeshkin remembers winters when there was so much heat pumped into his house that he would throw open his windows to cool down, though outside temperatures might be no higher than 10 degrees Fahrenheit. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
10/30/97 04:05 PM |
 Angry investors in Vladivostok demanded their deposits back from a collapsed pyramid scheme that affected thousands of people throughout the region. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
10/30/97 04:02 PM |
 Workers of all political stripes protested for back wages Oct. 30 across Primorye and the nation, demanding that officials address their problems – and calling for the resignation of President Yeltsin. |
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