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| by Mike Eckel |
03/20/98 10:53 AM |
| Rose-smelling is a learned art. To stop your harried pace, arrest scattered thoughts, to smell the flowers — as the saying goes — this requires effort in a busy world. All the more so here in the Russian Motherland. |
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| by Nonna Chernyakova |
03/20/98 10:52 AM |
| An exhibition of Nikolai Roerich’s pictures which opened in the Arseniev Museum Branch last week reveals an interesting phenomenon in the life of Russia’s intelligentsia. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
03/20/98 10:50 AM |
 Nikolai Fyodorov works in the shadow of his predecessor. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
03/20/98 10:49 AM |
| Foreign trade grows in Far East
Foreign trade between Far Eastern territories and neighboring countries has increased by nearly 150 percent over the past years, according to the Svobodny Sakhalin newspaper. |
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| by Nonna Chernyakova |
03/20/98 10:49 AM |
| The Sakhalin Oblast administration is resisting a federal plan to gradually empty the island's struggling northern cities, replacing them with short-term workers on major oil projects. |
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| by Andrew Wilson |
03/20/98 10:48 AM |
| The world's longest railroad extends its conspicuously wide gauge from Nakhodka to Brest, into and out of all the former republics of the Soviet Union. It threads its northern extremity into Finland and it winds its way down into the Asian steppes of Mongolia, right up to the Chinese border. |
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| The Rybak Sakhalina |
03/20/98 10:47 AM |
| A nationwide-poll placed Sakhalin Oblast Gov. Igor Farkhutdinov as 45th on a list of Russia’s most effective local leaders. |
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| by Frank E. Kennemur, Vancouver, Washington, USA |
03/20/98 10:46 AM |
| Upon reading your March 6 issue (162), I am at a loss for words to describe your mayor’s plans to do away with the trams. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
03/20/98 10:45 AM |
| It’s hard to know what to make of the recent police seizure and release of three newspapers, but whatever happened, it was at very least a blunder by the police. And there is the alarming possibility someone higher up gave the order. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
03/20/98 10:45 AM |
| FESCO launches largest-ever container ship
FESCO launched its largest-ever container ship late February, The Kapitan Afanasiev. Built in Poland, the ship can take 1,900, 20-foot containers and travel at a maximum speed of 19 knots. On her way to Primorye, the ship will pick up cargo in Puerto Rico to deliver it to China and then operate on the Pusan-Inchon-Vostochny-Vladivostok line. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
03/20/98 10:44 AM |
 Airport passengers will soon pay a 100 new ruble ($16) airport fee when departing from Vladivostok, the Artyom City Duma decided recently. |
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| by Mike Eckel |
03/20/98 10:43 AM |
| Canadians, like Russians, know about cold winters. When temperatures drop to 30 or 40 degrees below zero Celsius, building exteriors can crack and water pipes rupture, unless they are made with special cold-resistant materials. |
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| by Mike Eckel |
03/20/98 10:43 AM |
| A major reassessment of the Russian government’s credit rating by Moody’s Investors Services will not damage the still immature Far Eastern and Primorye economies, according to many local observers. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
03/20/98 10:42 AM |
| Police arrest notorious Primorye don
Vladivostok police arrested the alleged leader of a Primorye criminal group on March 6, newspapers reported. Pavel Samoylenko, 35, was indicted on a number of extortion charges reportedly committed in 1995 and 1996. Samoylenko’s gang allegedly kidnapped businessmen from around the krai, brought them to Vladivostok, and tortured them or locked them in building basements and freezers. Samoylenko may face up to 12 years in prison. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
03/20/98 10:41 AM |
| Spring means tick season
Tick-born encephalitis season started March 15. Several bites have been recorded in Vladivostok and Nadezhdinsky County already this year. Those who got tick shots last fall must undergo revaccination. Those who have not been vaccinated before may get them on an accelerated course at any local polyclinic. Last season, 147 people contracted encephalitis, 82 percent of whom were not immunized. Twenty of those who became infected died from the disease. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
03/20/98 10:40 AM |
| Regional companies will donate more than 50 tons of food and medical supplies to North Korea, Primorye Gov. Yevgeny Nazdratenko said recently. |
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| by Russell Working, editor |
03/20/98 10:40 AM |
| The premiere issue of the Vladivostok News announced the first direct air link between Vladivostok and a foreign country — a TU-154 jet to Niigata, Japan. |
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| by Mike Eckel |
03/20/98 10:39 AM |
 U.S. Ambassador James Collins expressed cautious optimism about business in the Far East and Russia as a whole during a visit to Vladivostok and Sakhalin March 17-21. |
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| by Russell Working and Nonna Chernyakova |
03/20/98 10:37 AM |
 An investigation into a tiger skin that Gov. Yevgeny Nazdratenko allegedly gave Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has come to a standstill, an official says. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
03/20/98 10:37 AM |
 More than three thousand protesters gathered in Vladivostok March 20 to demand the end of a political battle that threatens to grind city services to a halt. |
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| by Russell Working and Nick Wadhams |
03/20/98 10:35 AM |
 Newspapers critical of Gov. Yevgeny Nazdratenko are claiming political harassment after police temporarily confiscated their entire press run and barred the doors of their printing press. |
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| by Russell Working |
03/20/98 10:35 AM |
| The city has cut off funding for an agency that transports dead bodies to the morgue, leaving policemen — and sometimes private citizens — to remove corpses from Vladivostok’s streets and apartments. |
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| by Russell Working |
03/20/98 10:34 AM |
| Foreign media were describing it as «stunning» and «a bombshell announcement that shocked the nation.» |
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| by Russell Working and Nonna Chernyakova |
03/20/98 10:33 AM |
| An ongoing feud between Vladivostok Mayor Victor Cherepkov and regional authorities took another twist Thursday when police raided the city's finance department and began removing documents. |
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| by Russell Working |
03/20/98 10:31 AM |
| Sitting at his desk surrounded by a mob of media, Presidential Representative Victor Kondratov puffed on a cigarette and basked in the attention. |
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