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Issue 548 :: Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Business Japan, Russia to speed up connections

The Vladivostok News 12/15/06 08:47 PM
Japan’s second largest telecommunication operator KDDI Corporation signed on Tuesday a contract worth $42.7 million with Russia’s Rostelecom to lay an underwater high-speed fiber optic line between the cities of Joetsu and Nakhodka in southern Primorye aiming to improve telecommunication services.
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Vladivostok by Braille Late nights and dark alleys

by Celine te Braake 12/15/06 08:45 PM
Two blonde English-speaking girls in a Russian bar usually do not go unnoticed. My friend and I experienced this firsthand last Friday. As we were having some drinks in a bar, soon we found ourselves surrounded by Russians asking for our attention. Sorry mom, I broke the do-not-talk-to-strangers-rule.
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Special reports Fire guts furniture store

The Vladivostok News 12/14/06 05:03 PM
A two-story furniture store was completely destroyed in Vladivostok in a massive fire which broke out late Wednesday and kept raging all night.
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Special reports Mindful courts and dirty elections

By Alyona Sokolova 12/14/06 05:02 PM
The court of Dalnegorsk on Wednesday ruled to disband the city’s election commission for its failure to handle local Mayoral Office elections effectively in mid October when one of the running candidates was killed in an apparent contract hit.
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Crime watch Businessman’s jeep blasts a warning

The Vladivostok News 12/14/06 08:31 AM
A Land Cruiser Prado off-roader belonging to a businessman running a number of markets in the town of Artyom, 50 kilometers from Vladivostok and Nadazhdinsky County, was blasted to pieces on December 8, as a warning, prosecutors said.
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Social life Flotilla flag flies home

The Vladivostok News 12/14/06 08:29 AM
The flag of Russia’s former Siberian Flotilla, now a historic item once belonging to one of the Flotilla’s ships and then kept in the U.S. for 83 years, was delivered to the Pacific Fleet Museum in Vladivostok on Wednesday.
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A Pacific Fleet officer delivering the flag of Russia’s former Siberian Flotilla to the Pacific Fleet Museum on Vladivostok’s Korabelnaya Naberezhnaya on Wednesday.

Photo by Vladimir Pavlov

A Pacific Fleet officer delivering the flag of Russia’s former Siberian Flotilla to the Pacific Fleet Museum on Vladivostok’s Korabelnaya Naberezhnaya on Wednesday.

Crime watch 2 North Koreans beaten to death in Vladivostok

The Vladivostok News 12/12/06 07:35 PM
Three North Korean nationals were severely beaten by unknown attackers in Vladivostok on Sunday evening, two of the victims later died at the hospital.
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Social life Vladivostok budget-2007 passes public hearings

The Vladivostok News 12/12/06 07:34 PM
The draft of Vladivostok’s 2007 budget presented by the city’s officials at public hearings on December 8, estimates revenues at 5.6 billion rubles ($215.6 million) while expenditures are expected to reach 6.08 billion rubles ($234 million).
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