Vladivostok Novosti Company

Issue 565 :: Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Workers of the Vladivostok Road Department trim treetops in alleyways along the city’s major roads to ensure the safety of drivers and pedestrians from the occasional fall of trees and branches.

Photo by Nina Petrukhina

Workers of the Vladivostok Road Department trim treetops in alleyways along the city’s major roads to ensure the safety of drivers and pedestrians from the occasional fall of trees and branches.

Special reports Amur governor slapped with 3 additional charges

The Vladivostok News 04/20/07 09:51 PM
The Amur’s Prosecutor Office has launched another three criminal cases against the regional Governor Leonid Korotkov adding them to the first case initiated for the governor’s abuse of power when Korotkov authorized an increase of the energy tariffs to support a local football team.
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Environment Kamchatka deputies target poaching boats

The Vladivostok News 04/20/07 09:50 PM
Seventeen poachers’ vessels detained by Kamchatka’s border guards are currently remain under seizure in the Avachinsky Bay of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky creating a headache for local officials who are forced to take care of them until the court decision on each case is made.
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Environment Far Eastern leopards remain on brink

The Vladivostok News 04/19/07 11:07 PM
A recent census of the Far Eastern leopard revealed that only some 34 of the cats are left in the wild in the territory of Primorye and adjoining China showing that the rarest wild cat remains on the verge of extinction, environmentalists from the Vladivostok-based Far Eastern branch of WWF Russia announced on Wednesday voicing the census results.
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Crime watch Police pull over fake alcohol

The Vladivostok News 04/19/07 11:06 PM
Vladivostok traffic policemen on Wednesday stopped a truck entering the city with 19,000 bottles of tainted vodka.
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Business Russia, Japan to fabricate freezer

The Vladivostok News 04/18/07 05:57 PM
A deep-freeze warehouse with a capacity to ice and store up to 3,500 tons of fish and seafood will be constructed in the town of Nakhodka by several of Nakhodka’s fishing companies together with Japanese company Hiro Kikaku making it the first mutual project of the kind in the Russian Far Eastern fishing industry.
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Business Railways crave for port stock

Combined reports 04/18/07 05:56 PM
The Russian Railroads Company intends to purchase more stock shares in Russian ports including the Pacific ports of Vladivostok and Nakhodka, to smooth the coordination of railways and ports, CEO Vladimir Yakunin said at a conference in Moscow on Tuesday.
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Delighted schoolchild changes Vladivostok’s World War II memorial into an impromptu playground just as Vladivostok’s weather begins to warm up to spring.

Photo by Yuri Maltsev

Delighted schoolchild changes Vladivostok’s World War II memorial into an impromptu playground just as Vladivostok’s weather begins to warm up to spring.

Special reports Collision halts railway traffic

The Vladivostok News 04/17/07 09:21 PM
A freight train bumped into a truck on the Trans Siberian Railway in the Primorye region on Monday halting railway traffic for almost two hours.
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Special reports Two men go missing in separate sea accidents

The Vladivostok News 04/17/07 09:20 PM
Rescuers stopped their search on Monday for a diver and a telegraphist who disappeared from their ships in two separate incidents in the seas of Japan and Okhotsk on April 14.
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