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Issue 527 :: Friday, July 21, 2006

Environment Forest restoration project to foster leopard growth

The Vladivostok News 07/21/06 12:22 PM
A batch of 20,000 larch seedlings were delivered to Primorye from the city of Khabarovsk as the start of the World Wild Foundation Russia project aimed to restore the coniferous-deciduous forests in Primorye’s south-west, a preferred habitat of the rare Far Eastern leopard.
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Social life Sparse housing demands federal financing

The Vladivostok News 07/21/06 12:21 PM
By the years 2020-2025, the population of the Russian Far East may drastically fall by one third due to insufficient housing and poor living conditions, presidential envoy to the district Kamil Iskhakov revealed on Thursday at the Khabarovsk meeting devoted to the national project of development of housing construction.
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Special reports Captain missing from ship

Combined reports 07/20/06 12:20 PM
Four vessels are seeking the captain who disappeared from a Russian fishing boat in Bering Sea south-east off Chukotka’s coast, news reports cited Vladivostok’s Marine Rescue Center as saying Thursday.
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Arts and Ideas Film festival to showcase more movies

The Vladivostok News 07/20/06 12:19 PM
125 films from 21 countries will be featured at the upcoming fourth International Pacific Meridian Film Festival to be held in Vladivostok at the end of August, a press statement from the festival organizing committee reported.
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Business Far Eastern Railways plan to boost cargo and passenger flow

The Vladivostok News 07/19/06 12:23 PM
A total of seven million tons of cargo are expected to be transported through the Russian-Chinese railway border checkpoint Grodekovo - Suifenhe in 2006, was mentioned at the meeting of Far Eastern Railways’ delegation and Harbin Railways in the Chinese city of Harbin, Monday.
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Special reports Foreign tourist agencies to explore Chukotka

The Vladivostok News 07/19/06 12:18 PM
A large group of tourism company representatives from England, France, New Zealand and Poland arrived in Russia’s Chukotka Autonomous Region on Monday for an excursion trip aimed at identifying opportunities and prospects for tourism in the region.
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Special reports Separate sea accidents call for rescue teams

Combined reports 07/18/06 12:15 PM
Rescue ships continue searching for six people missing from a cutter which sank July 14 off Kamchatka’s eastern coast.
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Amateur rowing teams rushing neck-and-neck towards the finish line at the dragon-boat race which opened the Seven Feet Cup 2006 regatta in Vladivostok’s Fyodorova Bay on July 15. The nine-day annual regatta festival also includes Primorye’s junior sailing races, cruising yacht competitions and international match races involving participants from Russia, England, India and Australia.

Photo by Vasily Fedorchenko

Amateur rowing teams rushing neck-and-neck towards the finish line at the dragon-boat race which opened the Seven Feet Cup 2006 regatta in Vladivostok’s Fyodorova Bay on July 15. The nine-day annual regatta festival also includes Primorye’s junior sailing races, cruising yacht competitions and international match races involving participants from Russia, England, India and Australia.

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