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| by Russell Working |
04/30/98 12:38 PM |
| The other day our account-ant, Nelly Fyo-dorovna, stuck her head in the door and asked for help. The car had returned from the bank, and she needed some men to carry the bankroll upstairs. |
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| by Hashi Syedain |
04/30/98 12:37 PM |
| It has finally happened. After three years (or thereabouts) of monopoly power in the exclusive Vladivostok pizza scene, Pizzeria Zhemchuzhina, that pioneer of culinary excellence and appropriate decor, has a competitor. |
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| by Olga Fomina, Vladivostok |
04/30/98 12:35 PM |
| The most unpleasant comment I hear from foreigners about us Russian students is that we have no civic pride. Hearing that we don’t have good equipment at the universities or enough financing is nothing in comparison to this. They say we are more interested in ourselves than in our country. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
04/30/98 12:34 PM |
| It is sad news that one of mayor Cherepkov’s more sensible ideas – to charge for car parking in the city center – has had to be abandoned as a total failure. The scheme was never properly thought out or adequately funded, but the principle was a good one. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
04/30/98 12:34 PM |
| A Siberian court recently made a decision that is a welcome one for foreigners in Russia: Sibir airline, which charged different rates for foreigners and Russians, must repay a German citizen who sued them. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
04/30/98 12:33 PM |
| Minorities ask for oil share
A watchdog group is protesting the privatization of oil giant Rosneft because ethnic minorities in the Sakhalin oil-producing areas are being ignored in the process. The International Foundation for Development of Ethnic Minorities and Ethnic Groups asked President Yeltsin to suspend privatization, and will seek a 5 percent stake in Rosneft. They cite a Russian law stating that indigenous peoples must benefit from resources found on their land. |
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| Svobodny Sakhalinsk |
04/30/98 12:33 PM |
| 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 |
04/30/98 12:32 PM |
| Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk has become a center for the most advanced method of diagnostics – television – through the efforts of local physician Anatoly Chubukov and his American partners. |
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| by Andrew Wilson |
04/30/98 12:32 PM |
| A high-level expatriate oilman on Sakhalin recently told me that he can't understand why his project is meeting so much bureaucratic resistence. "Sakhalin and Russia need this investment so badly," he said, implying that the government ought to give his company greater latitude. |
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| by Nonna Chernyakova |
04/30/98 12:31 PM |
 President Yeltsin’s visit to Japan April 17 has again attracted public attention to the disputed Kuril Islands — and the desperate state of their economy. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
04/30/98 12:30 PM |
| Plant develops deposit
The Yaroslavsky Ore-Concentrating Plant recently began developing a new fluorite deposit that will last the company 50 years. Primorye Gov. Yevgeny Nazdratenko said the plant was a model for reviving companies in financial crisis. A commission comprised of Krai Duma and administration members had worked four months with federal agencies to halve the railway tariff for the plant, waive some krai taxes and ask Russian Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko for a 15 percent protective tariff on similar fluorite ore imported from Mongolia. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
04/30/98 12:29 PM |
| 1997 was not a good year for Primorye’s largest ship repair yard. |
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| by Russell Working |
04/30/98 12:29 PM |
| A Siberian court has held that a commonplace practice of charging foreigners more than Russians is illegal. But don’t expect prices to drop overnight here, say those fighting dual pricing in the Far East. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
04/30/98 12:27 PM |
| Police arrest counterfeiter at Royal Park Casino
Police recently arrested a counterfeiter at the Royal Park Casino, the krai police press service reported.
The man, who works as a commercial agent with the Khabarovsk-based Kard company, bought $3,000 worth of chips, paying in fake $100 bills, before casino workers notified police. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
04/30/98 12:26 PM |
| Chinese firm seeks Zolotoi Rog bridge contract
A Chinese construction company has expressed interest in bidding for the project to construct a pontoon bridge across the Golden Horn Bay, the Mayor’s Office press center announced April 27. The Dalyan-based company is also reportedly interested in the ongoing construction and renovations of the city’s underground passages, saying it could complete the work and then own and manage the facilities. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
04/30/98 12:25 PM |
| A prominent British businessman in Vladivostok was named Great Britain’s honorary consul to Primorye, Khabarovsk, and Sakhalin April 27. |
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| by Russell Working |
04/30/98 12:25 PM |
| Cuts in city funding to exterminate rats over the past year have caused a 250-percent surge in the disease-bearing pests since last fall, Vladivostok sanitary officials said recently. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
04/30/98 12:24 PM |
| Two unrelated killings during the week of April 20 were the latest in a series of apparent mob hits in Primorye. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
04/30/98 12:24 PM |
| Vladivostok Mayor Victor Cherepkov’s political struggles turned inward recently, when he claimed his own electoral commission acted beyond the limits of its power. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
04/30/98 12:22 PM |
 A trip to Fort No. 3 offers a glimpse of a time when four great powers had their eye on Vladivostok. |
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| by Nonna Chernyakova |
04/30/98 12:21 PM |
 The State Duma’s election of Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko on April 24 drew mixed reactions from Primorye politicians and observers. |
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| by Russell Working |
04/30/98 12:20 PM |
 Postal car chief Sergei Orlov always feels a sense of dread when the schedules are posted at the Communications Ministry’s railway post office in St. Petersburg where he works. |
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| by Mike Eckel |
04/30/98 12:19 PM |
 Imagine plummeting towards water from a height of 50 meters, only to be snapped back from the brink of death by a massive elastic cord, bouncing with all the grace of a yo-yo. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
04/30/98 12:19 PM |
| There is an epidemic growing in Primorye. In the April 29 issue of Novosti, Raisa Yefimenko, chief physician of Nakhodka's tuberculosis clinic, was quoted as saying that the rate of the disease increased dramatically in recent years. According to Yefimenko, among teenagers alone, there are twice as many patients as the year before and she estimates about 170 homeless people in Nakhodka have full-blown tuberculosis wander. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
04/30/98 12:18 PM |
 American P3 Orion planes were circling over the Sea of Japan throughout the week of April 20. |
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