Issue 158 – Mirror of Vladivostok News

Issue 158 :: Friday, January 9, 1998


Opinion So why are we here?
by Russell Working	01/09/98 03:30 PM
I have had occasion to call the States three times since I got back to Vladivostok Dec. 27 — to tell my family I had arrived, to wish everyone happy New Year, and to report I’d forgotten some clothes in my hasty packing job — and every time someone has asked urgently, “Are you all right?”
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Special reports 1997 - A year of turmoil
The Vladivostok News	01/09/98 03:22 PM
Political leaders battle. Gunmen kill mafia bosses. Yet a Korean industrial giant sees reason for optimism about the future of the city.
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Opinion Clash of tigers, man sparks taiga tragedy
The Vladivostok News	01/09/98 03:21 PM
The environmentalists around the world are trying to save the endangered Siberian tiger, which has dwindled to only a few hundred cats in the wild. But it only takes the presence of a man-eater, such as the one that appeared last month near the village of Sobolinoye, to bring to the surface the divisions between those who wish to preserve the animal and those who live near it.
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Business Feds lop zeroes off the ruble
The Vladivostok News	01/09/98 03:20 PM
A decade ago, a kilo of cheese cost 2 rubles, a kilo of sausage was 2.20 rubles and 10 eggs would set you back a mere 1.14 rubles.
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Crime watch Crime Chronicle
The Vladivostok News	01/09/98 03:17 PM
Grenade assailants guilty Two brothers accused of trying to assassinate a businessman by lobbing a grenade into the intensive care ward of a hospital in 1994 were sentenced to prison in December.
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Special reports News in Brief
The Vladivostok News	01/09/98 03:16 PM
Prosecutor investigates freezing apartments The krai prosecutor has launched a criminal case against two companies that have failed to provide heat to residents of six apartment blocks on Krygina Street since October. Prosecutor Valery Vasilenko is charging AESCO and PZHRET with negligence after residents complained they hadn’t had heat or hot and cold water for months. No other officials had responded to repeated appeals by the freezing people.
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Special reports Champagne time: OVIR turns 65
by Nonna Chernyakova	01/09/98 03:15 PM
Dealing with passports and visa registration may drive both Russians and foreigners crazy. But Nikolai Romanov, the head of Primorye Department for Visas and Registration (OVIR) takes seriously the job of registering the population.
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Special reports Paper finds new home
by Russell Working	01/09/98 03:13 PM
Workers are still hammering away out in the halls. And the cockroaches we hoped to leave behind hitched a ride in the desks to our new home.
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Special reports Duma chooses new speaker
by Andrei Kalachinsky	01/09/98 03:12 PM
Sergei Dudnik, head of the Nakhodka Free Economic Zone, has been elected speaker of the new krai Duma - an appointment regarded as a victory for Governor Yevgeny Nazdratenko.
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Special reports Ginseng lovers strip the woods
The Vladivostok News	01/09/98 03:11 PM
It was once valued like gold, and poachers often paid for their crime by being buried alive in the woods.
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Social life An act of faith
by Nonna Chernyakova	01/09/98 03:09 PM
Dec. 21, 1997 was a big day for Vladivostok’s 300 Baptists: They opened their first church in Primorye history.
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