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| by Nick Wadhams |
03/02/98 11:28 AM |
| I was feeling stranded last week. |
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| by Russell Working |
03/02/98 11:26 AM |
 In a gallery decorated with 19th century landscapes of Venice and a seashore and the Neva River in St. Petersburg, several dozen patrons of the arts hunkered down on padded benches recently for an afternoon of foreign music and old romances. |
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| by Russell Working |
03/02/98 11:24 AM |
 Shukhrat Madalimov was a young doctor with a family and a promising future. Why was he gunned down in a killing that had all the trappings of a mafia hit?
Dr. Shukhrat Madalimov pulled out of his parking garage at 9 a.m. Feb. 11 and started along a narrow road near Patrisa Lumumby Street when he found his way blocked by a car. |
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| by Roger W. Ries |
03/02/98 11:23 AM |
| I was very alarmed at reading about New York's rat situation ("Rats! New York's got it worse than we do," Jan. 22), but there is a good side to every problem. Did you not know that rat is a very good protein source? Of course it does have a high amount of hormones that tend to give New Yorkers their excitable attitudes. Please check your food next time you are in this great city. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
03/02/98 11:22 AM |
| You’re sitting in a movie theater on Svetlanskaya, and just when “Men in Black” reaches a tender moment — the birth of a slime-covered alien baby — you hear a faint rumbling out on the street. Or you’re buzzing down Aleutskaya in your car when suddenly a tram halts you by disgorging a mob of fur-and-leather-covered passengers into the roadway. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
03/02/98 11:21 AM |
| Russia, Taiwan open ports
Russia and Taiwan signed a deal Jan. 9, 1998 that opens up their ports for ships of either country. Previously, Russia-bound cargoes had to travel from Taiwan around Eurasia to Finland. Last year, business between Russia and Taiwan exceeded $3 billion. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
03/02/98 11:21 AM |
| Primorye’s biggest logistics management and customs-bonded warehouse firm is about to become a little bit bigger. |
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| by Mike Eckel |
03/02/98 11:20 AM |
 Lyudmila Shurpina is an optimist. Despite high taxes, capricious utilities, and the fact that passing trolleys overhead cause seismic disturbances in her office underneath Svetlanskaya Street, she sees hope for small businesses across Primorye and Russia. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
03/02/98 11:19 AM |
| Thieves take the monkey and run
Thieves in Vladivostok stole a 6-month-old monkey Feb. 9. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
03/02/98 11:18 AM |
| Four drown as ship sinks
The Russian ship Agan sank off the coast of South Korea on the night of Feb. 11 and 12, killing four crew members, according to the Vladivostok Coordinated Rescue Center. A bow leak aggravated by a storm reportedly caused the accident. The Agan, owned by the Nakhodka-based private shipping company Kozerog, was carrying nearly 1,000 tons of scrap metal en route to South Korea. The ship, though designed for inland waterways, was sailing the open sea. |
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| by Russell Working |
03/02/98 11:17 AM |
 It could have been 20 years ago – the drab bureaucrats filling the front rows of the hall, the naval cadets packed behind them, the red curtains and bunting, the oversized bust of Lenin wrathfully jutting his muzzle like a Scottish terrier that has spotted a squirrel on the other side of a window pane. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
03/02/98 11:17 AM |
| Former members of Vladivostok's City Soviet will meet on Feb. 28 to discuss adopting a city charter and scheduling local Duma elections. The only problem – the Soviet-era parliamentary body dissolved five years ago. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
03/02/98 11:16 AM |
 In the fourth apparent gangland killing within a week, two gunmen shot dead Vrezh Babakekhyan, heir to the mafia fiefdom of slain boss Mikhail Osipov, at his Jeep outside the Royal Park casino Feb. 17. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
03/02/98 11:15 AM |
| The Primorsky Krai Duma will concentrate on economic development over the next year, Duma Chairman Sergei Dudnik announced Feb 12. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
03/02/98 11:15 AM |
| Tiger department rangers shot and killed an injured tiger in Spassky County after it killed 11 dogs in the village of Yevseyevka, officials said. |
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| by Russell Working |
03/02/98 11:14 AM |
| Larisa Pinchuk believed all the hype. She even contributed to it. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
03/02/98 11:14 AM |
| Vladivostok’s Leninsky district court struck down Mayor Victor Cherepkov’s efforts to delay City Duma and mayoral elections this month. The decision significantly limits the mayor’s wide-ranging powers. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
03/02/98 11:13 AM |
| Five Primorye coal mines will shut down as part of the local government’s massive attempt to restructure the krai energy complex, a federal official announced Feb 13. |
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| by Russell Working |
03/02/98 11:13 AM |
 The church is reclaiming monasteries and other property. Monks hope this will lead to a spiritual renewal in Primorye. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
03/02/98 11:08 AM |
 Vladivostok Mayor Victor Cherepkov recently announced he will remove the city’s central tram line, the first step in a five-year plan to rid the city of trams entirely. |
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