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| by Nick Wadhams |
04/03/98 11:12 AM |
| There’s nothing like wasting a Sunday afternoon on a really lousy movie. |
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| by Russell Working and Nonna Chernyakova |
04/03/98 11:10 AM |
 Workmen were tearing out the library bookshelves at the Far Eastern State Technical University recently when they made a surprising discovery. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
04/03/98 11:10 AM |
| Drug seizures increase in Sakhalin Oblast
Police reported a sharp growth of illegal narcotics imports to Sakhalin recently. Military officers confiscated more than a kilogram of opium — valued at 70,000 rubles ($11,000) — in a southern area of the island last week. The department for illegal drug trafficking on Sakhalin confiscated 13 kilograms of opium since January. |
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| by Andrew Wilson |
04/03/98 11:09 AM |
| When U.S. Ambassador James Collins addressed the American business community on Sakhalin recently, he faced a group of enterprises with capitalization ranging from a paltry $15,000 to multiple billions of dollars in the island's huge oil projects. Despite the wide financial scope, though, there was one question that captivated everyone present: How is the island's customs authority going to handle the flood of oil-related project cargo expected to arrive this summer? |
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| Svobodny Sakhalinsk |
04/03/98 11:09 AM |
| A Japanese delegation raised hackles in Sakhalin recently when visiting officials said they would not help develop the Kuril Islands until the archipelago’s fate is resolved. |
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| by Victoria Vasilenko |
04/03/98 11:08 AM |
| An Alaskan company has helped build the first American-type school in Sakhalin Oblast on Iturup, one of the Kuril Islands. |
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| by Mike Eckel |
04/03/98 11:08 AM |
| A consortium of Japanese companies, led by the Marubeni Corporation, intends to build reportedly the largest floating gas power station in the world just off Sakhalin island beginning sometime next year. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
04/03/98 11:07 AM |
| Things are tough in Sakhalin – as they are all over in provincial Russia. As cities begin to empty out in the northern part of the island, it would be easy to throw in the towel. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
04/03/98 11:07 AM |
| When Yeltsin fired his cabinet March 23, stocks dropped as jittery investors worried about the future. Commentators and politicians around the world fretted about what this meant for Russia. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
04/03/98 11:06 AM |
| Tokyo eases visas
Tokyo simplified the procedure for issuing visas to Russian businessmen March 23 as part of ongoing talks between President Yeltsin and Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto. Visas will now be granted three days after an application is received, down from seven days. |
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| by Mike Eckel |
04/03/98 11:06 AM |
| A three-week-old wildcat strike by workers at the Sakha-Avia airline company has caused serious disruption at the Yakutia airport and has all but eliminated direct air travel between Primorye and the Sakha Republic. |
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| by Mike Eckel |
04/03/98 11:05 AM |
| Exports from Primorye have recently shown signs of increase. And the Korean National Tourist Organization sees promise in one particular export from Primorye: tourists. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
04/03/98 11:05 AM |
| Million of dollars in American trade bound for China may soon be routed through Primorye, if officials here can work out a package tempting enough to investors on the other side of the Pacific. |
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| by Mike Eckel |
04/03/98 11:04 AM |
| Rumors about the imminent merger of Vladivostok’s currency exchange with the stock exchange have been greatly exaggerated, but are not entirely false, according to a recent announcement by representatives of the two exchanges. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
04/03/98 11:04 AM |
| Drunken woman ignites mother in Artyom
A drunken young woman in Artyom allegedly poured solvent on her 57-year-old mother and set her on fire with a match March 28, the Primorsky Krai Internal Affairs department press service reported. The mother survived and is now at the Artyom city hospital. According to the press service, the daughter became upset after her mother scolded her for lewd behavior. A criminal case has been filed, authorities reported. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
04/03/98 11:03 AM |
| City considers bridge across Golden Horn
The idea of a bridge across Vladivostok’s Zolotoi Rog Bay has been revived once again as a way of easing traffic and assisting the development of the southern side of the bay. City architects and bridge specialists met with Mayor Victor Cherepkov March 27 to discuss a $70 million pontoon-bridge design, with a drawbridge for ships, and shops, restaurants and possibly a hotel on its lower level. However, Cherepkov did admit that the idea of building a bridge - which is almost as old as the city itself - is not possible without private sector and foreign investment. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
04/03/98 11:02 AM |
| A criminal case brought against Vladivostok Mayor Victor Cherepkov last fall will proceed despite accusations of political infighting and irrelevancy, the Krai Duma decided recently. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
04/03/98 11:02 AM |
| The krai administration will release a 200 million ruble ($33 million) bond issue to modernize energy equipment and pull the krai through the heating season, Primorye’s Duma decided March 24. |
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| by Russell Working |
04/03/98 11:00 AM |
 On March 25, a city ambulance brought a 35-year-old homeless woman to Vladivostok’s Maternity Home No. 1. She was filthy, unkempt, and lice-ridden, and a nurse helped bathe her and got rid of the lice. |
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| Novosty |
04/03/98 10:59 AM |
| Hundreds of businesses are hooked to military electric lines and heating pipes and don’t pay the federal government for the utilities, an inspection by the Territorial Agency of the State Energy Supervision Committee revealed. |
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| by Mike Eckel |
04/03/98 10:58 AM |
| Representatives of 27 trade unions from around Primorye gathered in Vladivostok April 9, calling for payment of back wages for public workers, guaranteed employment, and the resignation of the President Boris Yeltsin and his newly-formed government. |
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| by Nonna Chernyakova |
04/03/98 10:57 AM |
| A Far Eastern Army Fifth Division sergeant who had been tortured by his own men took his platoon hostage and killed one man before surrendering to the Federal Security Bureau in Ussurisk April 14. |
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