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Issue 534 :: Tuesday, September 5, 2006

Special reports Meningitis lingers in Khabarovsk region

The Vladivostok News 09/08/06 04:35 PM
The number of patients diagnosed with viral meningitis in the Khabarovsky region has reached 1,300 people on Thursday, officials said.
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Crime watch Policemen sentenced for beating

The Vladivostok News 09/08/06 04:34 PM
Three police officers in the Amur region who beat two gold miners when seizing illegal gold from them, recently faced the court trial and received suspended sentences, local prosecutors said on Tuesday.
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Environment No signs of N. Korean missile near Nakhodka

The Vladivostok News 09/08/06 04:33 PM
The sea near the Pacific port of Nakhodka is not polluted with any kind of missile fuel, Primorye’s branch of the federal ecological inspectorate Rosprirodnadzor reported on Thursday, responding to a request about possible sea contamination after a North Korean missile was reported to have fallen into the sea on July 5 in dangerous proximity to the Primorye's cities of Nakhodka and Vladivostok.
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Environment Vladivostok sees cleaning effort

The Vladivostok News 09/06/06 01:33 PM
The conclusion of the chief state expertise committee on construction of wastewater treatment facilities in Vladivostok is expected to come by Jan.1, 2007, the city’s officials promised on Monday. Currently almost all Vladivostok's sewage flows into surrounding bays without any treatment.
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Business Alcoa considers plant in Khabarovsk

The Vladivostok News 09/06/06 01:33 PM
Alcoa Inc., the world's largest aluminum company, is surveying options for constructing a plant in the Khabarovsky region of the Russian Far East, Khabarovsk administration officials reported Tuesday.
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Three youngsters, reserved, eager and wary, appear with gifts and smiles for their teachers to kick off the first day of school on September 1 in Vladivostok.  As is tradition in Russia, the first graders are given a microphone to declare their good intentions to their instructors for the upcoming school year at a gathering of students, school staff and administrators held on school yards.

Photo by Nina Petrukhina

Three youngsters, reserved, eager and wary, appear with gifts and smiles for their teachers to kick off the first day of school on September 1 in Vladivostok. As is tradition in Russia, the first graders are given a microphone to declare their good intentions to their instructors for the upcoming school year at a gathering of students, school staff and administrators held on school yards.

Social life Back to school

The Vladivostok News 09/05/06 02:38 PM
47 percent of Russians think that modern schools provide proper education and develop students’ physical skills while 36 percent think the opposite – schools harm psychological and physical health of students, a recent poll revealed.
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Opinion Editor`s note

By Alyona Sokolova 09/05/06 02:37 PM
In my personal opinion, the education system in Russia leaves much to be desired. Being the mother of a 9-year-old child, I have already experienced changing schools.
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Special reports Russian tanker Luchegorsk released by Guinea

The Vladivostok News 09/05/06 02:37 PM
The Russian tanker Luchegorsk seized by Guinea’s marine police August 21 off Africa’s western coast for allegedly illegally entering its waters, was released on Saturday and departed the port of Conakry to continue its work within the economic zone of Sierra-Leone.
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Special reports Primorye vice governors flee posts en masse

The Vladivostok News 09/05/06 02:36 PM
On August 31 Primorye’s Vice-Governor Valery Vasilenko was released of his duties in accord with a resignation request, the regional administration press service reported.
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Special reports Primorye`s agrarian party banned from elections

The Vladivostok News 09/05/06 02:35 PM
The regional branch of the Agrarian Party of Russia was banned from participation in the upcoming October elections in Primorye’s Duma due to inappropriately filed signatures of the voters, a press statement from the regional election committee reported Monday.
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