Issue 549 – Mirror of Vladivostok News


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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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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