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| by Nonna Chernyakova |
04/17/98 11:52 AM |
| I belong to the category of people who are absolutely not able to deal with high-tech equipment. Everything seems to dislike me. |
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| by Russell Working |
04/17/98 11:50 AM |
 I have always gotten a creative charge from an art classroom or studio, something like the sensation a news junkie gets in a newsroom, whether it’s the New York Times or Vladivostok’s First English-Language Newspaper. |
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| by Frank E. Kennemur, Vancouver, Washington, USA |
04/17/98 11:50 AM |
| When I was in Vladivostok a month ago, I saw a way your city could clean its streets and make money at the same time. Make use of all the junk autos. Scrap metal is money. The junk autos that are now just rusting could be brought to a collecting point. A crusher could be built to compact them. The tires could also bring in money. Japan and Korea both buy scrap metal and tires. |
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| by William Barnes, Vladivostok |
04/17/98 11:50 AM |
| Let me tell you the story of the great Canadian voyage to the Russian Far East to open an honorary consulate. The representatives of my country showed up in the last week of March this year and proceeded to offer $3,000 per year to anyone who would accept the position. You also had to have an office and secretary. I didn’t ask if that was U.S. or Canadian dollars. In fact, I was too embarrassed to ask anything. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
04/17/98 11:49 AM |
| A small news item recently brought an encouraging word for those seeking to boost Primorye’s role as a major cargo link between Europe and the Far East. A train with 50 containers from Korea, Japan and the Philippines left Nakhodka April 16 for Brest, a trip that should take nine days. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
04/17/98 11:48 AM |
| Drilling costs to top $200 million this year
The Sakhalin-1 oil consortium will spend almost $200 million this year on drilling and construction, said Victor Gorokhov, a spokesman for Zarubezhneft. This year, two more bore holes will be drilled at the Arkutun-Daginskoye deposit. And test runs will be completed at bore holes No. 7 and 8, drilled last year. The work will allow a more accurate assessment of the oil stock in the most promising part of the deposit, and allow oil companies to choose a site to install the first production platform. |
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| by Andrew Wilson |
04/17/98 11:48 AM |
| Having registered several companies in Russia over the past six years, I have run into a number of annoying regulations. But I never thought I'd see the day Russia would try to stop foreign investment altogether. That was before I registered our most recent U.S.-Russian joint stock company on Sakhalin Island. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
04/17/98 11:47 AM |
| South Korea’s biggest gas buyer may pave the way for development of Sakhalin’s extensive natural gas reserves, officials announced after recent talks in Seoul. |
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| by Victoria Vasilenko |
04/17/98 11:46 AM |
| In the downtown part of the city, a beautiful building with red roof and a little tower is almost completed. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
04/17/98 11:46 AM |
| Progress will sell missiles
Primorye’s military plant Progress will sell 30 Moskit anti-ship missles to China within the next three years. The plant has started to get its personnel and equipment ready for the contract. Progress will devote 25-30 percent of its work force to fulfilling the order. The Moskits will be installed on two destroyers that are being constructed for the Chinese in St. Petersburg. The Moskit is fired in the air but flies below wave level in a trough created by its supersonic speed, and it is hard to detect. |
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| by Al Gibbs, The Tacoma News Tribune |
04/17/98 11:45 AM |
| Nearly 180 people, one-third of them Russian, met this week bent on eliminating trade barriers between Puget Sound and the Russian Far East. |
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| by Mike Eckel |
04/17/98 11:44 AM |
| When the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development’s Russian Fund for Small Business set up shop in Vladivostok in June of 1997, it was a relative latecomer to the region’s support network for small business development. |
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| by Mike Eckel |
04/17/98 11:44 AM |
| It has just got a little easier to travel to South Korea from Vladivostok. |
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| by Mike Eckel |
04/17/98 11:28 AM |
 Primorye’s nascent economic growth is in real danger of succumbing to the economic woes of the Asian Pacific Rim countries, according to several analysts. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
04/17/98 11:27 AM |
| Man abducted, held for ransom
Three criminals committed Vladivostok’s first known kidnapping in early April when they abducted an unemployed man and held him for ransom, police reported recently |
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| The Vladivostok News |
04/17/98 11:26 AM |
| Elections set for July 12
The Vladivostok Electoral Commission announced April 6 that City Duma elections will take place July 12. The commission’s decision came on the same day that the Krai Supreme Court upheld a February ruling by Leninsky district court which said scheduling the City Duma elections for October was illegal. |
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| by Mike Eckel |
04/17/98 11:25 AM |
 Public-sector workers and representatives of some 27 trade unions from around Primorye gathered on Vladivostok’s main square on April 9, as part of a nationwide day of action to demand the payment of back wages. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
04/17/98 11:22 AM |
 A recent krai-brokered agreement will help dismantle Russia’s vast centralized property control by granting more property rights powers to local leaders, rather than federal ones. |
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| compiled from Novosty and the Vladivostok |
04/17/98 11:21 AM |
| Three men were slain in apparently unrelated contract killings in Vladivostok, Ussurisk and Bolshoi Kamen recently, police reported. |
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| by Russell Working |
04/17/98 11:19 AM |
 Throughout Primorye, aging military arsenals are ticking bombs. And kids are hauling explosives back to their homes and schools.
Sergei Palyony teaches wood and metal work at the village school, and all year he has raised alarms about the explosives that children have been finding in the woods nearby. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
04/17/98 11:18 AM |
| Local lawmakers are threatening to impeach Primorye Gov. Yevegeny Nazdratenko if they find he has abused krai budget funds that are deposited into a separate account only he controls. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
04/17/98 11:17 AM |
 A prolonged fishing dispute resurfaced recently when Primorye Gov. Yevgeny Nazdratenko accused foreign fishermen of violating international agreements, stealing jobs from more than 200,000 Russians, and plundering fish stocks in the Sea of Okhotsk. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
04/17/98 11:16 AM |
| Vladivostok Mayor Victor Cherepkov’s political struggles turned inward recently, when he claimed his own electoral commission acted beyond the limits of its power, he said. |
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| by Nonna Chernyakova |
04/17/98 11:16 AM |
| Two people were killed and two wounded during a tornado that swept across Arseniev April 20. |
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