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Issue 542 :: Monday, October 30, 2006

Environment Environmentalists examine Primorye’s big cats
The Vladivostok News	11/03/06 05:44 PM
Aiming to evaluate the condition of the Far Eastern population of leopards and tigers, an international team of conservationists captured one male Siberian tiger and one Amur leopard in late October in the Primorye region.
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Business Primorye reports statistics Part II
The Vladivostok News	11/02/06 06:13 PM
According to statistics provided by the Finance Department of the regional administration, Primorye’s budget revenue for the first nine months of 2006 totaled 33.1 billion rubles ($1.2 billion), showing a 34 percent increase if compared to the same period last year. The budget expenditures accounted for 31.8 billion rubles, with the budget profit accounting to 1.3 billion rubles ($48.6 million).
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Business Primorye reports statistics Part I
The Vladivostok News	11/02/06 06:12 PM
Industrial production in the Primorye region grew 23 percent in the first nine months of 2006 compared to the same period last year, the regional statistics service recently revealed.
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Environment Villagers protest illegal cedar cutting
The Vladivostok	11/01/06 09:39 PM
Enraged by illegal cutting of precious cedar trees in their territory villagers of Ariadnoye, located 120 kilometers from the city of Dalnerechensk in central Primorye, urged the local authorities for protection. Having received neither answer nor assistance, the villagers staged a protest on October 27 and invited ecologists and reporters to participate.
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Photo by Dmitry Kuchma Villagers of Ariadnoye protesting illegal cedar cutting in their territory on October 27
Special reports Partizansk suffers emergency situation
The Vladivostok	11/01/06 09:37 PM
On the verge of winter, the residents of Primorye’s city of Partizansk are forced to combat an emergency situation which was introduced into the town on October 27 with heat being provided only at night and water supplied for only a few hours each day.
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Social life Primorye on alert for alcohol-related deaths
The Vladivostok News	11/01/06 09:36 PM
In the first nine months of 2006, a total of 187 people have died of alcohol poisoning, including incidents resulting from the consumption of tainted alcohol and alcohol-containing products, a statement from the Primorye Federal Statistics Department reported.
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Special reports Island near Khabarovsk gets apportioned
Vostok Media	10/31/06 09:34 PM
A joint group of Russian and Chinese border officials are currently defining new border lines on the Island of Bolshoi Ussurisky near the city of Khabarovsk in accordance with the intergovernmental decision to solve the territorial dispute between China and Russia in 2004.
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Special reports Vladivostok traffic to be investigated by ITS
The Vladivostok News	10/31/06 09:33 PM
Vladivostok Mayor Vladimir Nikolayev and General Director of Intelligent Traffic Systems in S. Korea Kim Jin Man signed an agreement to study the possibilities for introducing an integrated transport system in Vladivostok, a press statement from the city’s administration reported.
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Business Ferries stand idle at Vanino port
The Vladivostok News	10/31/06 09:32 PM
Sakhalin Shipping Company lays the blame on the Far Eastern Railway for the ferries standing idle due to their untimely delivery of freight cars, www.Sakhalin.com reported.
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