Issue 528 – Mirror of Vladivostok News

Issue 528 :: Friday, July 28, 2006


Social life Drivers render blame for soaring gasoline prices
The Vladivostok News	07/28/06 03:28 PM
Most of Russian car users think that the country’s government is mainly to blame for high gasoline prices, a recent opinion poll by the National Public Opinion Studies Center VTsIOM revealed.
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Social life Far Eastern envoy to attend Peruvian inauguration
The Vladivostok News	07/27/06 03:35 PM
Presidential Envoy in the Russian Far East Kamil Iskhakov has left for the Peruvian city of Lima to head Russian delegation at Friday’s inauguration ceremony of Peruvian President-elect Alan Garcia, a statement from the envoy’s office reported.
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Social life Russian and Chinese cadets engage in learning exchange
Combined reports	07/27/06 03:28 PM
Over 100 cadets from marine universities in Vladivostok and St. Petersburg arrived in the Chinese port of Dalian to participate in the first Chinese-Russian festival of maritime universities that opened Tuesday, Itar-Tass reported.
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Business Vladivostok Avia purchases Airbus aircraft
The Vladivostok News	07/26/06 03:40 PM
The Vladivostok Avia airline signed on Monday a contract with International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC) to lease six Airbus A320 aircraft, a press statement from Vladivostok Avia reported.
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Crime watch Chinese merchant negligent for selling toxic tableware
The Vladivostok News	07/26/06 03:28 PM
Ussurisk Prosecutor’s Office of Primorye launched a criminal case against a Chinese resident who sold at a town marketplace eating utensils that contained a toxic substance, a press statement from Primorye’s Prosecutor’s Office reported Monday.
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Business Primorye and Akita Prefecture to promote transport partnership
The Vladivostok News	07/25/06 03:39 PM
A delegation of Japan’s Akita Prefecture will visit the port of Zarubino in Primorye’s Khasansky County to assess its potential for launching a direct cargo shipping line with the port of Akita, was agreed July 21 at the delegation’s visit to Vladivostok, a press statement from Primorye’s Duma reported.
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Business Intestinal infection breaks out in boarding school
Combined reports	07/25/06 03:28 PM
Vladivostok’s Sovetsky Prosecutor Office has launched a criminal case regarding violations of sanitary and epidemiological norms which resulted in a mass outbreak of intestinal infection in a boarding school camp, the statement from the office reported.
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