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| by Russell Working |
03/16/98 02:16 PM |
| Last year in our office the pressure was on. Since I had only been in the country for five weeks, the women on staff took to warning me: “Don’t forget International Women’s Day.” |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
03/16/98 02:15 PM |
| Cravings for high-cholesterol, artery-clogging Western food are hard to satisfy in Vladivostok. But a different twist on an old standby often does the trick. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
03/16/98 02:14 PM |
 Ten U.S. Marines are training in Sanatornaya and standing guard at the American Consulate in Vladivostok. But what does being a Marine have to do with Microsoft Word? |
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| by Heidi Brown |
03/16/98 02:21 PM |
| Huge deposits of crude oil and natural gas off Sakhalin Island could bring billions to foreign investors — and the Russians who work with them. But residents of the remote island are hoping they have something to gain from the black gold rush. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
03/16/98 02:21 PM |
| The Eurasia Fund opened a new office on Sakhalin Island, officials announced recently. The organization hopes the office will foster growth in the region by dispersing grants and working closely with grant sponsors. |
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| by Andrew Wilson |
03/16/98 02:20 PM |
| Raised in the eastern half of the U.S., I didn’t see the Pacific Ocean until I was 26, and I had to fly all the way around the world to get to it. And then I walked on it. |
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| by Mike Eckel |
03/16/98 02:19 PM |
| A Vladivostok-based fishing company is the first of many Primorye businesses expected to benefit from the influx of money to the oil projects of Sakhalin Island. |
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| by Russell Working, editor |
03/16/98 02:19 PM |
| This issue marks the debut of the Vladivostok News’ Web page on Sakhalin, a place where Russian and foreign investors are drooling over vast oil reserves lying offshore. Andrew Wilson, president of Links, Ltd., launches “Sakhalin View,” a column on business and investment on the island just north of Japan. We reprint an overview of Sakhalin from the Vladivostok News’ archives. And we will be adding news stories to these pages over the next few weeks and months. |
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| by Lowell Turner |
03/16/98 02:10 PM |
| Earlier today when I first surfed into your front page, I read the headline regarding the desire to remove the trams altogether, and the first word that leapt to my mind was NO! |
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| by Mike Brady, Vladivostok |
03/16/98 02:08 PM |
| With regard to your review of Yelena Kiry’s concert in the Feb. 20 issue of your paper, I find your disparaging remarks toward the man who arranged the performance to be entirely uncalled for. Why do you find it necessary to stoop to personal insults about the man’s physical appearance? That “gawky man in glasses” does more than anyone I know to provide culture in this forlorn city. I have attended at least a dozen performances in the last year that would not have happened if he hadn’t organized them. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
03/16/98 02:07 PM |
| Navy cadets cheered, bureaucrats were delighted, but Primorye residents have little to gain from the visit of Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko. |
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03/16/98 02:06 PM |
| Krai gold rush to start
Primorye will soon be mining its own gold from a deposit in Krasnoarmeysky County to the north of the krai. In March, a krai-level licensing commission will issue a license to the highest bidder among interested mining companies. Previously, Russian gold miners couldn’t develop the gold deposit for lack of essential technologies. Now, with newly-acquired western technologies, mining companies will be able to profitably extract gold from the deposit. |
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| by Mike Eckel |
03/16/98 02:06 PM |
| The litany of problems in the Russian armed forces is no secret to any well-informed observer. Servicemen receive meager salaries late, if at all. Promises of housing for laid-off soldiers and sailors are empty. Much of the Pacific Fleet sits rusting in the city’s harbors. And morale is low from Kaliningrad to Bolshoi Kamen. |
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| by Mike Eckel |
03/16/98 02:05 PM |
| Swords to plowshares, naval officers to auto mechanics and marketing directors. |
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| by Mike Eckel |
03/16/98 02:04 PM |
 Consumer tastes shift like the wind in post-Soviet Russia, a function of aggressive marketing and the flood of new products from abroad. Here in Primorye, the vanguard of changing culinary tastes gathers twice monthly on the third floor of the Krai Committee on Food and the Food Processing Industry. |
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| by Mike Eckel |
03/16/98 02:02 PM |
 If sugar, alcohol, milk, and mineral water can be considered staples in the diets of Primorye residents, there is something to celebrate at the beginning of the 1998 agricultural season. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
03/16/98 01:58 PM |
| Businessman slain in Ussurisk
The general director of the Tor company, Mikhail Kim, was slain in Ussurisk Feb. 21, the first ever homicide of a businessman in the city. According to police, two men shot Kim twice in the head as he left his house. No arrests have been made yet. Kim’s company sold vegetables and fruit imported from China. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
03/16/98 01:55 PM |
| Want your mail? Check out a stalled train
A dispute between two federal ministries has left 250 train employees and 120 mail cars sitting in Vladivostok’s railway sidings for four weeks. The Railway Ministry ordered the Far Eastern railway, owned by the Ministry of Communications, to stop sending mail cars to the west of the country Feb. 2. Conductors attending the cars are starving, and don’t have access to water or utilities. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
03/16/98 01:55 PM |
| Three of Vladivostok’s five city districts again failed to gain autonomy from Mayor Victor Cherepkov in March 1 elections. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
03/16/98 01:53 PM |
 Anna Schetinina made history in 1935. At the age of 27, she became the first woman to captain a long-voyage ship. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
03/16/98 01:53 PM |
| The Primorsky Krai Duma again delayed passge of a 1998 budget, and will continue spending small chunks from regional coffers to pay its expenses. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
03/16/98 01:52 PM |
| The Krai Justice Department recently froze more than 120 million new rubles ($20 million) in city bank accounts, department officials announced Feb. 26. |
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| by Russell Working and Nonna Chernyakova |
03/16/98 01:51 PM |
| Anna Kazachenko’s tenant hadn’t been paying rent for a studio apartment in Academicheskaya, on the north end of Vladivostok, but in December he offered to leave the cash at an office in downtown Vladivostok. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
03/16/98 01:51 PM |
| Sergei Larionov, alleged godfather of the Larionov criminal gang, was stabbed to death by a fellow inmate at the trial pending prison unit on Partizansky Avenue Feb. 25. |
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| by Russell Working and Nonna Chernyakova |
03/16/98 01:46 PM |
| Environmentalists and government ecological organizations are in uproar after Primorye Gov. Yevgeny Nazdratenko reportedly gave the skin of a rare Siberian tiger to Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko last week. |
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