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| by Russell Working |
05/15/98 01:20 PM |
| I encountered my first bottle of Ginseng Snake Wine this week in a pharmacy off an alley in Suifenhe, China, and I knew I had to buy it. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
05/15/98 01:19 PM |
 Let me say this at the start: I can’t tell a piece of modern art from a squashed crate of tomatoes. If someone swapped a veggie-stained canvas with an acclaimed Pollack, I wouldn’t know the difference. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
05/15/98 01:19 PM |
| It is encouraging, at first glance, to see that officials have appointed a special police force to preserve the endangered Siberian tiger. The rare and beautiful animal is on the brink of extinction, and some hunters flagrantly violate Russian law in hunting the creature. In fact, talk to a rural hunter at random, and you may well hear a story about killing tigers. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
05/15/98 01:17 PM |
| The latest apparent contract killing – the eighth in the city this year — recently prompted a discussion at the Vladivostok News. How safe, we asked ourselves, is Vladivostok? |
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| by Russell Working and Nonna Chernyakova |
05/15/98 01:14 PM |
 Indigenous people are watching their way of life disappear in Primorye. Raisa Andreitseva is fighting to preserve their ancient culture — and their rights. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
05/15/98 01:13 PM |
| Shipyard to build modules
The Nakhodka Ship Repair Yard will place a bid to make pre-fab construction modules for a gas liquefying plant to be built on Sakhalin. The decision was made when a delegation from Sakhalin Energy was visiting Nakhodka recently, according to Nakhodka Vice Mayor Mikhail Panchenko. Sakhalin Energy is looking for a contractor that not far from Sakhalin. The bidding will not take place until after 2000. |
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| Novosty |
05/15/98 01:12 PM |
| The Sakhalin Committee for Fisheries has accused two nature protection officials and the federal Far Eastern Nature Protection Marine Service of shielding crab poachers in Svetlaya Bay off the north coast of Primorye. |
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| by Andrew Wilson |
05/15/98 01:11 PM |
| Tormented by complaints about the shortsightedness of federal bureaucracy in Russia, I rejoiced last week to learn of the continuing visionary efforts of two Sakhalin-based government agencies. |
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| Svobodny Sakhalinsk |
05/15/98 01:10 PM |
| An alleged mob boss was shot and killed recently near the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk railway station, police reported. |
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| by Sergei Saktaganov, The Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk |
05/15/98 01:10 PM |
| National and Sakhalin press recently reported that the Sakhalin government and one of Russia’s leading financial organizations, Uneximbank, plan to create a joint bank. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
05/15/98 01:09 PM |
| New substation opens
Dalenergo’s South Electricity Grid recently received a new substation in the area of Sedanka on the outskirts of Vladivostok. The substation was the first to be brought online in the Far East this year. The new unit will back up existing aging facilities and provide power to residents and businesses in the north of the city. |
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| by Mike Eckel |
05/15/98 01:03 PM |
| Springtime in Primorye means blooming bird cherry trees, sowing the year’s vegetable crop, and… annual shareholders’ meetings for the region’s joint stock companies. |
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| by Mike Eckel |
05/15/98 01:03 PM |
| Is there enough room in the dynamic Vladivostok television market for yet another entrant? According to Igor Kozlov of Vladivostok-based communications company Inkkomp Limited, there’s plenty of room. |
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| by Mike Eckel |
05/15/98 01:02 PM |
| Wanted: $3 million to invest in the cultivation of trepang, a sea creature eaten as a delicacy in China. Foreign equity investment negotiable. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
05/15/98 01:01 PM |
| Gunmen shoot 3
Unidentified gunmen on May 7 shot Yuri Drigov, director of customs assistance company Roza-Plus, as well as his driver and bodyguard. Drigov and his driver were rushed to the hospital with various injuries, and the bodyguard died. According to local police, the assailants first shot from a Kalashnikov rifle and then threw a grenade at Drigov. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
05/15/98 01:01 PM |
| Mayor vows to punish 4 city districts — with trash
Vladivostok Mayor Viktor Cherepkov said on May 11 he would finance city services like trash collection and street maintenance only in the First River District. The other four, he said, would no longer receive funding because they all called for district Duma elections without his consent. Cherepkov made the announcement after May 10 district Duma elections took place in the Frunzensky region. Cherepkov declared the elections illegal, saying the district did not have the right to set elections. A Frunzensky district court is debating the issue. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
05/15/98 01:00 PM |
| Vladivostok’s contract killing spree continued when a local businessman was gunned down outside the Prestige Pool Bar on May 1. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
05/15/98 12:59 PM |
 Coal miners in the Partizansk region began a hunger strike for back wages recently, after co-workers who used similar tactics were paid months of withheld salaries in late April. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
05/15/98 12:59 PM |
| With June looming around the corner, krai administration officials have still not submitted a 1998 budget to Primorye’s Duma. |
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| by Mike Eckel |
05/15/98 12:58 PM |
| The announcement of new special police group to protect the endangered Siberian Tiger is getting mixed reviews from local observers and environmental groups. |
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| Novosty |
05/15/98 12:57 PM |
| A religious icon, for many years considered irrevocably lost, was recently returned to Vladivostok, to the praises of local Orthodox clergymen. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
05/15/98 12:56 PM |
| The number of teenagers with tuberculosis has doubled in Primorye in the last year, and the disease is increasing rapidly throughout the krai, said Raisa Yefimenko, chief physician of Nakhodka’s tuberculosis clinic. |
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| by Nick Wadhams |
05/15/98 12:55 PM |
 Scientists in Vladivostok blocked the city's main highway May 19 as part of a swelling protest movement across the region for back wages and better living conditions. |
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| by Russell Working |
05/14/98 12:54 PM |
 Alexander Maritsky was raised by devout parents, the son of a soldier killed two days before the end of World War II, but he followed the way of sin, he says, until he was 17. |
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| by Russell Working |
05/15/98 12:42 PM |
| Vasily Grachyov pushed his way from a swarm of miners at the Central Mine cashier's windows Friday, found a little elbow room and counted his rubles. |
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