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| By Georgia J. Michlig |
04/13/07 06:09 PM |
| This month’s duet of muggings of American citizens in Vladivostok has raised some interesting, but certainly not new, issues regarding safety in a foreign city. As one commenter on our site succinctly suggested, keep your head down, keep your English to yourself, and stay off the streets at night. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
04/13/07 06:08 PM |
| A festival ‘Days of Indian culture in Vladivostok’ started on Friday to commemorate the 60th anniversary of India and Russia’s establishing of diplomatic relations, a press statement from the Center for Indian Culture of the Far Eastern National University reported. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
04/13/07 06:07 PM |
| The Primorye administration has issued a statement urging businesses to submit their proposals for construction within the city of Vladivostok and on the Island of Russky where the summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation is supposed to take place in 2012. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
04/12/07 07:36 PM |
| Nakhodka’s police have started an inspection into an accident in which a truck rammed into a group of schoolchildren injuring two girls, a press statement from the city’s Inner Affairs Department reported Wednesday. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
04/12/07 07:36 PM |
| Khabarovsk’s regional court sentenced a teacher to two and half years in prison for gathering money from students for educational purposes and spending it on personal needs, a press statement from the court reported. |
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| Combined reports |
04/11/07 06:35 PM |
| A Siberian oil pipeline planned to deliver oil from the city of Taishet to the Primorye port of Kozmino may not see the construction of its second section, from the Amur town of Skovorodino to the Pacific coast, for at least four years due to a lack of oil reserves, officials revealed Tuesday. |
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Social life
Elderly stand up for pension
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| Photo by Nina Petrukhina |
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About 500 elderly people gathered near the statue to Vladimir Lenin in the square next to Vladivostok's railway station on Tuesday to demand an increase in pensions. The pensioners carried slogans and black balloons in their hands to demonstrate their dissatisfaction with the government's policy towards the elderly. The government recently suggested setting the average monthly pension at 3,270 rubles by the end of 2007 while the current minimum cost of living is 5,200 rubles ($200). The protesters demanded that pensions should be increased to equal the minimum cost of living. The rally was staged by the Federation of Russian Independent Unions and did not cause much trouble for officials. The hard question left in the air: how is it possible for a pensioner to survive in Russia clutching a mere $120 in hand? |
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| By Olga Aleksutkina, The Vladivostok |
04/11/07 06:33 PM |
| “I won’t work selling cabbage in the outdoor market,” says 27-year-old Marina, an idle mother of a four-year-old child, to surveillance inspectors during a recent raid aimed at monitoring problem families in Vladivostok. |
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| The Vladivostok |
04/10/07 07:37 PM |
 Russia’s federal prosecutors are searching for a Pacific Fleet officer who misappropriated a sum of 49 million rubles ($1,884,615) from a military unit he served in and then disappeared. |
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| Combined reports |
04/10/07 07:36 PM |
| The Khabarovsky region is to become one of the main transportation hubs in the country’s Far East, Russian Transportation Minister Igor Levitin reported at a meeting in Khabarovsk on April 6. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
04/10/07 07:31 PM |
| Vladivostok police detained a woman who scammed elderly ladies for money by convincing them she was a neighbor in trouble. To make the scenario perfectly believable she put on a police uniform. |
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