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| by Nonna Chernyakova |
11/27/97 02:05 PM |
| If shoe repair shops and fashion houses started cheerfully welcoming Russian housewives, we would think something went wrong in our nation. Seeing a smiling girl at a counter is as rare as an elephant sitting in a tree in downtown Vladivostok. I think part of our tradition is to look gloomier than we are, in order to scare customers, so that they feel guilty and regret they even came. |
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| by Russell Working and Nonna Chernyakova |
11/27/97 02:04 PM |
| The concept of a play within a play is hardly new, dating back at least to Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, and until we saw the Gorky Drama Theater’s “Mafiosi”, we had never considered the inherent risks in such a production. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
11/27/97 01:46 PM |
| In 1955, during Khruschev's thaw, an 80-year-old Vladivostok woman wrote a letter. Eighteen years ago, the NKVD arrested her daughter, who was never heard from again. These three documents released by the Federal Security Bureau tell a story of a conviction rammed through by the secret police, and of a dark retribution that befell the investigator as the Soviet maw began devouring its own. |
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| by Russell Working |
11/27/97 01:42 PM |
 Ida Popova still remembers the way the morning began – Sept. 11, 1937. It was sunny, a golden autumn day in Primorye. On her way out the door to school, she kissed her father good-bye, as she did every day. |
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| Scott Cook, Moonah, Tasmania, Australia |
11/27/97 02:02 PM |
| Hi, my name is Scott Cook, and I live in Australia, where I was born. I have no Russian relatives, but plenty of Russian friends whom I have contacted over the years through their service on the ships of FESCO. These times have been great fun, with trips to 10-pin bowling, mini golf, parties aboard the ships, and just being friends. |
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| by Scott Gore, Newark, Delaware, U.S.A. |
11/27/97 02:01 PM |
| I previously submitted a brief statement concerning the ironically named new religious law "On Freedom of Conscious and On Religious Associations." At that time, I said, "I guess it just goes to show you can take the boys out of communism, but you can’t take communism out of the boys." Now that I have stirred up the hornets’ nest so to speak, I should like to offer commentary on the words I wrote and their relation to the new law. |
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| by Stan Danysh, University of Alaska, Anchorage |
11/27/97 02:00 PM |
| The pathetic power struggles which hold the citizens of Vladivostok hostage have got to stop! How long can the people allow those darn politicians to play with power for the sole benefit of their own? They are all corrupt and compromised by close ties to mafia. Every politician onstage so far has proven his impotence in serving his electorate. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
11/27/97 02:00 PM |
| The Vladivostok News happened to go to press this issue on the day Americans call Thanksgiving — an occasion to give thanks to God, and to feast on turkey and pumpkin pie. But every culture has its food-related holidays, from Oktoberfests to old Slavic harvest feasts. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
11/27/97 01:59 PM |
| The Primorye Duma is scheduled to hold an election Dec. 7, and it’s time for Vladivostok and Primorye voters to rouse themselves and head to the polls.
Last election, apathy left Primorye with a Duma that some, anyway, may regret. Although voters did reject Mayor Victor Cherepkov’s bid for a seat, there was little else decisive about the vote. Some voters leaving the polls told reporters they couldn’t remember whom they voted for. One man turned out just because he wanted to see his old school, where the voting was taking place. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
11/27/97 01:58 PM |
| Nakhodka seeks US loan
Nakhodka’s mayor commented recently that the languishing Nakhodka Free Economic Zone may receive an $880 million loan from U.S. banks. Mayor Victor Gnezdilov said that after a trip to Los Angeles, he is hopeful that insurance companies there will grant 12-year loans for a city power station, airport renovation, a highway linking Vladivostok and Nakhodka, and 13 other projects. Gnezdilov said that all contracts would go to local construction firms. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
11/27/97 01:58 PM |
| The group that was supposed to rescue fishing giant Primorrybprom from bankruptcy has only worsened the company’s financial woes, increasing debts by more than 200 percent, First Vice Gov. Konstantin Tolstoshein said recently. |
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| by Nonna Chernyakova |
11/27/97 01:57 PM |
 Despite the large-scale oil drilling in Sakhalin and the need for housing for foreign specialists, local architects complain they are left without jobs. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
11/27/97 01:56 PM |
| A new Aeroflot route connecting Vladivostok directly to the United States will make travel across the Pacific cheaper and faster. Cutting out stop-over points along the Far Eastern coast, the flight will take just over six hours to arrive on American soil. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
11/27/97 01:55 PM |
| TV crew arrested in Khasan
A Japanese TV camera crew was arrested near Khasan on Nov. 14. Local press reported that nine Japanese journalists from NHK TV and their Russian translators were in Khasan to shoot a live TV program. During the shoot they were asked for documents by Russian frontier guards, who discovered that the crew’s visas didn’t permit them to visit Khasan. Guards decided to arrest the crew but released them the next day. A spokesman for the Vladivostok office of NHK said that documentation was in order, and the crew had obtained permission to shoot the program in Khasan. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
11/27/97 01:54 PM |
| Kondratov awarded for FSB management skills
President Yeltsin recently awarded local presidential representative and Lt. Gen. Victor Kondratov the Order of Fighting Merit for managing a highly successful FSB operation in the Far East, according to federal officials. Kondratov also earned kudos in 1995, when Yeltsin named the Primorye FSB one of the best in the country. |
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| by Nonna Chernyakova |
11/27/97 01:54 PM |
| Vladivostok residents say the Primorye Duma has less influence on life in the krai than organized crime, other political leaders and the mass media. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
11/27/97 01:53 PM |
 A sunken ship carrying 40 tons of oil will remain at the bottom of the Zolotoi Rog bay indefinitely despite repeated attempts to lift it over the last few months. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
11/27/97 01:52 PM |
| Vladivostok’s political circus reached farcical proportions recently when arch enemies Victor Cherepkov and Yevgeny Nazdratenko reportedly squabbled during a ceremony at which they were the most important guests. |
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| by Russell Working |
11/27/97 01:52 PM |
| The mood was sentimental as the Primorye Duma held its last its session Nov. 19, and when Chairman Nikolai Litvinov stood to speak, he acknowledged that not all of the 35 members would return. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
11/27/97 01:50 PM |
| An arsenal where 12 mines exploded Nov. 7 was operating as a wholesale military parts store, selling mine stabilizers illegally, according to the Pacific Fleet prosecutor investigating the case. |
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Photo by Valentin Trukhanenko
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| by Nonna Chernyakova and Nick Wadhams |
11/27/97 01:49 PM |
| On Nov. 18 an unknown hit man wielding an AK-47 shoots and kills 34-year-old businessman Sergei Visitov in his Land Cruiser. A girl with Visitov is injured, while another escapes unharmed. |
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| by Nonna Chernyakova |
11/27/97 01:48 PM |
 Alexander Lebed, leader of the People's Republican party and "Honor and Motherland" movement paid a one day visit to Vladivostok Dec. 1 to promote his party's candidates for upcoming krai Duma elections. Though Lebed has gradually lost influence in Russian political circles and possesses no official rank except as party leader, he was cordially met by the first vice governor Konstantin Tolstoshein and stayed at the four-star Hyundai hotel. |
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