Issue 557 – Mirror of Vladivostok News

Issue 557 :: Tuesday, February 20, 2007


Social life Pensioners struggle to survive reforms
by Tatyana Grigoryeva	02/22/07 07:09 PM
The federal law introducing monetary payments instead of social benefits in 2005 hit hard the most vulnerable groups in Russia – pensioners and the disabled. ‘If the government officials do not want to care for disabled citizens, why do they not just take us all out on some boat and let it sink in a city bay,” laments Yuri Safronov, an invalid from Vladivostok who spends hours in lines trying to receive free medicine from the state.
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Business Scientists forecast scarce salmon for Primorye
by Alyona Sokolova	02/22/07 06:59 PM
Primorye will have modest salmon catches in 2007 accounting to no more than 80,000 tons while the neighboring Sakhalin and Kamchatka regions may harvest most of the allowed salmon quota of 414,000 tons for the Far Eastern region, scientists forecast at public hearings on Wednesday.
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Crime watch Primorye administration, police suffer computer thefts
The Vladivostok News	02/22/07 06:58 PM
Unidentified intruders broke into the building of the Primorye administration through the windows of the first floor over the weekend and stole eight computers from one of the administration’s departments.
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Special reports N. Korean sailors rescued by Russian vessel
The Vladivostok News	02/21/07 08:12 PM
Four N. Korean seamen rescued by a Russian ship in the Sea of Japan were delivered safely to Vladivostok on Tuesday, a press statement from the city’s Marine Rescue Center reported.
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Business Gold rush fighting
Combined reports	02/20/07 04:55 PM
The Khabarovsk prosecutor’s office has launched a criminal case of embezzlement charges against local millionaire and former general director of the gold mining company Amur Viktor Lopatyuk. The application was submitted by the company’s new management coming from an oil-giant Alliance Group which continues its fight to take over the company considered one of the most prosperous gold mining holdings in Russia.
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Special reports Neglected roads break bones
The Vladivostok News	02/20/07 04:55 PM
The number of Vladivostok residents applying to local trauma centers with fractures and broken bones received on the city’s un-cleared icy roads has increased by a third since the last week’s snowfall, doctors said.
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Social life Primorye population shrinks
The Vladivostok News	02/20/07 04:53 PM
The total of Primorye’s population has decreased by 13.7 percent in the past year, a statement from the region’s Department for Statistics has reported.
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