Vladivostok Novosti Company

Issue 155 :: Thursday, November 27, 1997

Social life Smile, everybody

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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Social life Memorial lists dead souls

by Russell Working 11/27/97 01:42 PM
Ida Popova takes notes in the archivesIda 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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