Issue 546 – Mirror of Vladivostok News

Issue 546 :: Tuesday, November 28, 2006


Vladivostok by Braille Raymond was not here
by Celine te Braake	12/01/06 10:10 PM
In the ‘obshchezhite’ I live in, the Russian and international students do not live together. The second, third and sixth floors accommodate foreign students, the rest are inhabited by Russian students. Let me tell you this week about a guy in my dormitory named Raymond whose name was always around, but whom no one had ever seen.
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Social life Mosque and chapel to preach tolerance
The Vladivostok News	12/01/06 10:09 PM
In late October, Primorye’s town of Nakhodka saw the opening of the region’s first Muslim mosque, located in the town’s most visible place on the Lebedinaya sopka. Meanwhile, on the opposite side this small hill, the construction of an orthodox chapel has begun, with the architectural ensemble of the two buildings aimed to symbolize tolerance and reconciliation between Christians and Muslims.
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Photo by Yuri Maltsev Vladlen Kamovsky takes the floor on Wednesday in an office of the Vladivostok newspaper to thank the delegation of South Korean coast guards from Incheon (right) and present them with his panoramic painting of Vladivostok for rescuing sailors from a Russian sunken ship Sinegorye.
Arts and Ideas South Korean guards honored in Vladivostok
by Alyona Sokolova	12/01/06 12:13 AM
On Wednesday in the conference hall of the Vladivostok newspaper Primorye painter Vladlen Kamovsky personally presented his 16-meter-long painting ‘Vladivostok’ to South Korean marine guards who rescued 11 Russian sailors from a sunken ship Sinegorye in October.
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Special reports Budget draft passes first reading
The Vladivostok News	12/01/06 12:12 AM
On Wednesday Primorye Duma deputies approved in its first reading the projected 2007-budget which for the first time in the past three years shows over a $83 million deficit.
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Environment Amur needs UN clean-up aid
Combined reports	11/29/06 08:40 PM
The United Nations may allocate $7 million within a UN Environment Programme (UNEP) budget for an ecological preserve on the Amur River, Alexei Makhinov, second in charge of the Institute for Water and Ecological Problems of the Far Eastern Branch of Russia’s Academy of Sciences was cited by news reports as saying Wednesday.
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Crime watch Gamov’s killers found guilty
The Vladivostok News	11/29/06 08:39 PM
On November 17, four and a half years after the deadly attack, three men faced a Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk court and were declared guilty of an arson which claimed the life of a border guard, Major General Vitaly Gamov.
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Business Aeroflot spreads wings for merger
The Vladivostok News	11/29/06 08:37 PM
The Russian airline Aeroflot recently announced high-flying plans to absorb two Far Eastern airlines –Dalavia and Sakhalin Airlines – in an effort to create a unified airline to operate in the Russian Far East. Vladivostok-based Vladavia did not express any intention to be involved in the merger.
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Crime watch Customs uproots smuggled flowers
The Vladivostok News	11/28/06 08:41 PM
A large batch of contraband flowers from China were detained by Far Eastern Customs at a border checkpoint in southern Primorye, a press release from the customs reported Monday.
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