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| by Nonna Chernyakova |
01/22/98 10:24 AM |
| What a relief! We have only one winter holiday left to celebrate. It is Feb. 1 — the Chinese New Year, when the Year of the Tiger actually begins. |
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| by Russell Working |
01/22/98 10:22 AM |
 You could almost be in Milwaukie, Wisconsin, or Memphis, Tennessee, and you’re tempted to look around for big-bellied guys named Bubba and Don swilling pitchers of beer and getting up every so often to roll a ball down the alley. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
01/22/98 10:21 AM |
| It was a splendid idea, we felt — an entire day dedicated to the legion of rumpled elites who shape the future of Vladivostok: the press. And so after work we and some two hundred other journalists headed to a nightclub decorated with tinsel and posters of skulls and the Mona Lisa puffing a cigarette. It was time for the Fourth Estate to celebrate its newfound freedom of expression. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
01/22/98 10:21 AM |
| When you live in the Russian Far East, mail can be slow in coming, and only recently did a New Yorker magazine arrive dated last October. Maybe misery loves company, but there was something strangely cheering about a writer’s description of an encouter with rats in America’s most sophisticated city. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
01/22/98 10:20 AM |
| Minister lowers railroad freight rates
Railroad freight rates for coal, agricultural produce and metals are set to fall by 10 percent or more this year. The Minister for Railways said that the exact level of reductions will be determined on a case by case basis, but lowering rates by just two, three or five per cent, would be ineffective. |
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| Zolotoi Rog |
01/22/98 10:19 AM |
| The decline in Primorye’s light industry continued last year with a 17.5 percent drop in output, to 40 billion rubles ($6.7 million), during the first nine months of 1997, compared to the same period the previous year. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
01/22/98 10:18 AM |
 Pacific Fleet submarine B-187 returned from four months’ travel Jan. 19 with rave reviews — and possible business deals in its pocket. |
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| by Russell Working |
01/22/98 10:16 AM |
 Tear your hair out if you like, animal rights activists. Vladivostok is crazy about fur, and Mink is its biggest producer. |
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| by Russell Working |
01/22/98 10:15 AM |
 A three-year Primorye administration plan to upgrade rural airports could increase passenger traffic to remote areas that are rich in timber and minerals and could interest eco-tourists, officials say. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
01/22/98 10:14 AM |
| Tiger skin found in Hunter’s Castle
The Tiger Task Force and the Primorye Environmental Prosecutor’s Office found an Ussury tiger skin hanging on the wall of the Hunter’s Castle restaurant recently when doing routine check-ups of companies and organizations. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
01/22/98 10:13 AM |
| Seven killed in Japanese fishing boat accident
A Japanese fishing boat capsized Jan. 10 off the Kuril island of Iturup killing seven. The rest of the crew were picked up by Japanese ships and delivered to Nemuro port on Hokkaido Jan. 11. Cold and stormy weather hampered the search for the missing crewmen. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
01/22/98 10:12 AM |
| Timber theft has skyrocketed in Krasnoarmeisky County since police closed a post that used to check truck drivers’ permits to transport logs. |
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| by Russell Working |
01/22/98 10:11 AM |
 Last March a watcher posted in a car near the Okean Restaurant spotted them, 13 ice fishermen adrift on a floe that had broken off and was moving toward the Sea of Japan. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
01/22/98 10:10 AM |
| Four slayings hit Primorye Jan. 11, including a woman found in a refrigerator and a 70-year-old man beaten to death by bums. |
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| by Nikolai Kutenkikh |
01/22/98 10:08 AM |
 Russky Island — the hospitals have no medicine, and bakeries have only a few day’s worth of flour. Ambulances don’t drive — there’s no fuel — and pension checks aren’t getting through to the elderly. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
01/22/98 10:07 AM |
| The Pacific Fleet command has assigned a boat to shuttle between Russky Island and mainland Vladivostok three times a day, poviding relief for an island that has faced with food shortages and medical emergencies since public ferries stopped running. |
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| by Nonna Chernyakova |
01/22/98 10:05 AM |
 Just finished your last book? Desperate for something new to read in English? Well, the International Room of the Gorky Library on Nekrasovskaya Street operates a lending service, with more than 5,000 fiction, non-fiction and reference books in English, German and Japanese. |
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| by Nonna Chernyakova |
01/22/98 10:04 AM |
 The krai’s environment is for the most part improving, experts from the Primorye branch of the Federal Center for Monitoring Environmental Pollution conclude. |
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| by Vladimir Kunitsyn |
01/22/98 10:03 AM |
| Vladivostok border guards last year detained over 100 Middle Easterners, mostly Iranians, who use the city as a stepping stone to illegally entering Japan. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
01/22/98 10:02 AM |
| Ferry service to Russky Island resumed Jan. 24 after a three-week hiatus that left residents without medical services, food, and transportation to and from the mainland. |
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| by Russell Working |
01/22/98 10:01 AM |
 Workers waving Communist flags and red banners blocked the Trans-Siberian Railroad tracks near Vladivostok Jan. 27 in an effort to get Moscow's attention and receive their back wages. |
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