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Issue 549 :: Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Vladivostok by Braille Theaters and cell phones

by Celine te Braake 12/22/06 09:25 PM
As part of my attempt to integrate into the Vladivostok community, I thought I had to go to the theatre at least once. Last week was my chance, as some of my friends were going to see the play ‘A streetcar named desire’. Like any experience in Vladivostok, it was completely different from what I am used to.
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Business Gamblers to stick to zones

The Vladivostok News 12/22/06 09:24 PM
The State Duma on Wednesday passed in its third and final reading the draft of the new federal law which defines four special zones in Russia allowed to host gambling facilities. Primorye region entered the list.
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Special reports Putin frets over Far East

The Vladivostok News 12/21/06 06:46 PM
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday blasted the government’s feeble policy toward the development of the Russian Far East, saying that it had resulted in poor ties to the rest of the country, excessive rates of crime and corruption and a severe population drain. All these factors are directly threatening Russia’s national security, Putin stressed.
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Special reports 4 geologists crushed by collapsing soil

The Vladivostok News 12/21/06 06:45 PM
Rescuers extracted all of the bodies of the four geologists killed by a fallen soil bed at an iron ore deposit in the Jewish Autonomous Region on Tuesday, a press statement from the Far Eastern Department for Emergency Situations reported.
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Social life New Year charity marathon sleds into Vladivostok

The Vladivostok News 12/20/06 08:08 PM
Primorye’s regional office of the Russian Peace Foundation and several other non-profit organizations have launched the New Year charity marathon "Our world through a child's eyes" in Vladivostok on December 15 and invites volunteers to participate through January 15, 2007.
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Social life Vladivostok sketches bridge to the future

by Maria Shimanskaya 12/20/06 08:07 PM
The long-discussed project of the grandiose bridge, planned over the Zolotoy Rog (Golden Horn) Bay may link Vladivostok’s downtown with one of its remote residential districts in three years time. This turns out to be a commercial project aimed at ‘non-economic goals’ rather than towards social problems in the city, the project developers revealed at the recent public hearings.
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Crime watch 5 youngsters detained in hate crime

The Vladivostok News 12/19/06 08:47 PM
Primorye's police have detained five youngsters related to the brutal beating of three North Korean workers in Vladivostok on December 10. Two of the victims later died at the hospital and one remains in critical condition.
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Social life Facing the poor

by Alyona Sokolova 12/19/06 08:44 PM
When walking to my office today I met an elderly woman in the street dressed only in a sweater on a minus 12 Celsius day, she was collecting food leftovers from the garbage. I stopped to give her some cash I had with me though she did not beg for it. When I opened my computer later in the day I discovered that social organizations worldwide consider December 19 as the International Day of Helping the Poor.
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