Issue 555 – Mirror of Vladivostok News

Issue 555 :: Tuesday, February 6, 2007


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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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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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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