Vladivostok Novosti Company

Issue 555 :: Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Vladivostok by Braille Shakespeare and semantics

by Georgia J. Michlig 02/09/07 08:20 PM
A colleague of mine once said of Vladivostok, “This is a port city, English is in the air.” English is indeed the language of business and commerce. Yet here in Vladivostok with English in the air, Russian on the streets, and living in an academic community where French, Japanese, Chinese, German, Dutch, and Korean are generally just around the corner, one finds oneself in the center of a semiotic implosion.
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Business Housing prices skyscraper on Russky Island

Combined reports 02/09/07 08:19 PM
The Russky Island which lies comfortably south off the Pacific port of Vladivostok, deserted and well-forgotten by both its military owners and local authorities, is now facing a surge of interest from real estate companies fighting for room on the island picked by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin as the venue for the APEC summit in 2012.
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Special reports Vladivostok speleologists descend to set cave record

The Vladivostok 02/08/07 04:25 PM
Two Vladivostok speleologists Maxim Avdeyev and Viktor Mishunin have recently participated in the expedition launched by an international Cavex team to explore the Voronya Cave, the deepest known cave in the world located in Abkhazia, Georgia's breakaway republic. The expedition set the new depth of the cave increasing it from −2,140 meters deep to a new world record of 2,170 meters.
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Maxim Avdeyev (left) and Viktor Mishunin exploring the world’s deepest cave of Voronya in the Arabika cave system in Abkhazia this January.

Photo by Vladivostok Speleologists Club in Vladivostok (www.cavingclub.fegi.ru)

Maxim Avdeyev (left) and Viktor Mishunin exploring the world’s deepest cave of Voronya in the Arabika cave system in Abkhazia this January.

Social life Flu breaks out in school

Combined reports 02/08/07 04:23 PM
Ten secondary schools in Primorye’s town of Arseniev have been closed for a weeklong quarantine due to a sweeping flu virus infection.
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Special reports Green water triumph

The Vladivostok News 02/07/07 07:34 PM
Primorye’s provider of central heating to residential apartments Primteploenergo has recently announced it will run green-colored water in the heating pipes in an effort to stop residents in several regional counties from using heating water for inappropriate purposes.
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Environment Tiger stalks Primorye village

Combined reports 02/07/07 07:32 PM
Specialists from the ‘Tiger’ Inspectorate in Primorye decided to capture an Amur tiger which approached the village of Meteoritnoye in Krasnoarmeysky County on Monday, killing a dog and attacking its owner. The tiger has been lurking near the village since the incident and has already made several trips into the settlement scaring locals to death.
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Opinion Making the most of Moscow

by Maria Shimanskaya 02/06/07 06:44 PM
The Spasskaya Tower of Moscow’s Kremlin, the symbol of the city and Russia, traditionally one of the top must-see sights for the city guests.When traveling from one side of Russia to the other across a country 9,000 kilometers-wide with 11 time zones, the vast distances might seem both an advantage and a drawback. My recent trip to Moscow, however, proved there is a bit more than simply time zone differences to be considered.
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Special reports Retired Russian woman applies to Strasbourg Court

Combined reports 02/06/07 06:44 PM
A 69-year-old woman from Vladivostok facing a $7,500 repayment to the Russian Pensioner Fund which she considers unfair, has recently applied to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to consider her case and received a positive answer.
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Special reports Russia’s chief prosecutor lambastes Far East office

The Vladivostok News 02/06/07 06:43 PM
Russia’s Chief Prosecutor Yuri Chaika held a meeting in Vladivostok on Monday to blast the Far Eastern prosecutors for poor results in their work in 2006 urging them “to enforce prosecution instead of reporting increased crime statistics.”
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