Issue 550 – Mirror of Vladivostok News


Special reports The Top 15 Stories of 2006
The Vladivostok News	01/17/07 05:06 PM
Dear readers, we are glad to present you with The Top 15 Stories of 2006 which best represent the cultural, political, economical and social life of Vladivostok and Primorye. We hope that you will enjoy the opportunity to reflect on this past year with us during the holiday season, which will last in Russia until January 9. We look forward to your dedicated readership in 2007.
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Photo by Vasily Fedorchenko Russian winter fairy tale heroes Ded Moroz (Father Frost), and his granddaughter Snegurochka cheerfully walking along a Vladivostok street declaring it time for the New Year celebrations, joy and numerous presents have come.
Social life A Russian Christmas Story
by Georgia June Michlig	12/26/06 09:58 PM
The holidays of a people tell much about the spirit of a people. There is one cultural trademark which, being an American in the Far East of Russia, the local Vladivostok people show an almost endemic interest in, Christmas.
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Photo by Vasily Fedorchenko A girl from Primorye’s town of Ussurisk decorating the New Year tree placed in the city’s central square with a hand-made toy.