Issue 560 – Mirror of Vladivostok News

Issue 560 :: Monday, March 12, 2007


Vladivostok by Braille Prehistory in Primorsky Krai
by Georgia J. Michlig	03/16/07 07:22 PM
When thinking of the Primorye region one turns naturally to its current political and economic situation in the world, not to its archaeological record. Yet, it is precisely those attributes of this region which make possible a prosperous and productive future that have provided also for a rich and reaching past.
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Business Vladivostok, Akita to expand shipping links
The Vladivostok News	03/16/07 07:21 PM
A new cargo shipping line will link the Far Eastern port of Vladivostok and the Japanese port of Akita, it was agreed by Vladivostok’s port management and officials from the Akita Prefecture on Thursday.
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Special reports Russia’s Far East population continues to dwindle
Combined reports	03/15/07 08:03 PM
The lack of the federal government’s coherent policy toward the development of the Russian Far East may lead to the already sparse territory’s population drastically dropping by one third by 2025, Khabarovsk’s regional Governor Viktor Ishayev told a meeting of Russia’s Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Tuesday.
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Special reports Officials report drug abuse decline in Primorye
The Vladivostok News	03/14/07 03:58 PM
For the past three years, the number of registered drug users in Primorye has declined by 12 percent, the region’s Governor Sergei Darkin said voicing the statistics at his meeting with officials from the regional Police Department to Combat Drug Trafficking on Tuesday.
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Social life Far Eastern climbers to summit Everest
The Vladivostok News	03/13/07 03:40 PM
Six mountain climbers from Kamchatka and Primorye will embark on an expedition to Mount Everest to ascend the world's highest peak, the first project of the kind organized by climbers from the Russian Far East.
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Crime watch Contract hit killers sentenced
The Vladivostok News	03/12/07 03:57 PM
On March 9 Primorye’s regional court sentenced two men to a 15-year and 13-year imprisonment respectively for organizing and performing a contract hit murder of Ussurisk Duma deputy and businessman Yuri Yemets in June of 2004.
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Social life World jeep trip starts off in Vladivostok
The Vladivostok News	03/12/07 03:57 PM
Six Russian participants started off to their worldwide trip named ‘Expedition Around the World’ from the city of Vladivostok on March 8, by flying their two orange-colored jeeps into air.
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