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| by Russell Working |
12/11/97 02:51 PM |
| Perhaps it was the moment we boarded an American jet in Vladivostok that our relationship began to transform — the American and the Russian newspaperman. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
12/11/97 02:51 PM |
| I can’t decide if my favorite part of the Gorky Theater’s rendition of Ivanov, by Anton Chekhov, was when I realized that the man in back of me wouldn’t stop talking with his wife throughout the performance or when the audience, believing the play was over, clapped too early and ruined the play’s tragic ending. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
12/11/97 02:47 PM |
 Being disabled is hard enough in itself. Being disabled in Primorye, particularly now, requires more endurance than ever. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
12/11/97 02:47 PM |
| Vladivostok has certainly been taking a beating in the press recently, and we at the Vladivostok News have taken part in that as well. In some ways, the city deserves it. With shoddy infrastructure and a Sphynxian tax code, the area certainly isn’t the easiest place to conduct business. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
12/11/97 02:46 PM |
| What factors made democracy work this time at the elections? First, an extremely bad previous Duma. It inspired not only disciplined babushkas who show up at every election and often determine the fate of the nation. Young couples, students, and middle aged people came hoping to change something in krai politics. Even cold weather did not hamper the elections. The town of Dalnegorsk was the champion: 57 percent of the electorate voted. A 18 year old Vladivostok student said that all her friends will vote for those who did not participate in the previous Duma. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
12/11/97 02:46 PM |
| Prisco creates daughter
Prisco Sakhalin, a subsidiary of the Primorsk Shipping Company, registered recently to compete for project tenders in the Sakhalin-2 oil project. Prisco is the only firm transporting oil from Sakhalin-1, but many foreign oil-carriers will compete to carry oil for the developing Sakhalin-2. Prisco will build three 45,000 ton tankers for its daughter company. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
12/11/97 02:45 PM |
| Vladivostok’s business community buzzed recently when press sources reported that representatives from the Hyundai Group visited two factories in Arseniev to consider building an automobile plant in Primorye. |
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| by Nonna Chernyakova |
12/11/97 02:45 PM |
| The Moscow investment corporation Partnership recently acquired full control over Primorye shipping giant Vostoktransflot during a Nov. 26 shareholders’ meeting. The event marks the first time in Primorye that such a large company – with the third largest refrigerator fleet in the world – will be run by a team of young professional managers. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
12/11/97 02:44 PM |
| Leaders of Primorye’s fishing companies gathered recently to warn the federal government against foot-dragging on a new tax code. Their reason: If tax laws in the region don’t get better soon, fish suppliers may face bankruptcy. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
12/11/97 02:44 PM |
| When Russia’s much-anticipated new tax legislation stalled last month in the federal Duma, officials in Primorye knew that the following year would be a difficult one. But now that tax changes will not occur until the middle of 1998 at the earliest, locals have already chalked up 1998 as a wasted year in Russia’s reform process. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
12/11/97 02:43 PM |
| Watch for fake 100,000 notes
Primorye is saturated with fake 100,000 ruble notes, officials at the krai Internal Affairs Department said recently. Officials warned that Ussurisk, where a man was found with 57 fake notes in the end of November, is particularly rife with counterfeits. An investigation to track down their origin is under way. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
12/11/97 02:42 PM |
| Pacific Fleet commander Khmelnov found guilty
The military court of the Pacific Fleet sentenced former Pacific Fleet Commander-in-Chief Igor Khmelnov to a five year suspended sentence after finding him guilty of stealing State property, abusing power, and forging documents. Khmelnov’s lawyer Boris Kuznetsov, however, believes the case against Khmelnov was fabricated, and claims that witnesses in the case were pressured during the investigation. A Vice-Admiral admitted during the court session that the chief investigator threatened him with arrest if he did not give testimony against Khmelnov. |
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| by Nonna Chernyakova |
12/11/97 02:20 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 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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| by Nonna Chernyakova |
12/11/97 02:19 PM |
 Russians are gradually moving back to their rating as the world’s most voracious readers, say local publishers and book store owners. |
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| by Russell Working |
12/11/97 02:17 PM |
 Gennady Protasov was busy with a buckknife at the table out in front of the cabin, slicing meat into tiny strips. He was one of the backwoodsmen who planned to take me boar hunting the next day, and it seemed important to learn from a man who had shot scores of the tusked wild pigs that in some circumstances are capable of goring a tiger to death. |
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| by Nonna Chernyakova |
12/11/97 02:16 PM |
| It was a hard day for Yelizaveta Verchik, the head of polling station 516 located in the Borodino movie theater. A restaurant took up the bulk of the foyer, and voters crowded in a four meter space, squeezing over to the ballot boxes placed under a staircase. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
12/11/97 02:15 PM |
| A naval officer who writes for a military newspaper in Primorye is attracting international attention after local officials announced he will be tried in a criminal court for allegedly passing secret documents to Japan. |
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| by Nonna Chernyakova |
12/11/97 02:14 PM |
 Voters in Primorye, frustrated by political squabbles and economic troubles, said “no” to a second term for most regional lawmakers, choosing businessmen to represent them instead. |
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