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| The Vladivostok News |
04/27/07 07:24 PM |
| A women’s monastery in the village of Razdolnoye 150 kilometers from Vladivostok was auctioned and sold to private businessmen in the beginning of April just to be bought and returned to the nuns a few weeks later by another businessman. |
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04/27/07 07:24 PM |
| Russia’s Far Eastern Department for Emergency Situations does not confirm the information of a possible major earthquake hitting the city of Khabarovsk, refuting rumors that have already spread panic among the city’s residents. |
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04/27/07 07:23 PM |
| In the upcoming two months the Detroit Investment (DI) Company intends to sell Vladivostok’s beer brewery Vladpivo which it owns together with the companies А1 and IFC. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
04/26/07 04:40 PM |
| A new container shipping line between Vladivostok and South Korea was set in motion Wednesday in the container terminal of the Vladivostok Commercial Port aiming to increase the cargo turnover of Asian shippers into and out of the Russian Far East. |
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Social life
Russia's first freely elected president Boris Yeltsin died on Monday
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| Photo by Vyacheslav Voyakin |
Wednesday is declared a national day of mourning in Russia to pay tribute to the late and former president Boris Yeltsin who died of heart failure Monday. Russia's first freely elected president, a contradictory reformer, Yeltsin came to power in June 1991 and ruled with an autocratic fist and democratic touch over a nine-year period until handing over power to Vladimir Putin at the end of 1999.
Yeltsin visited Vladivostok in 1990 when he held the position of the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of RSFSR. During his stay in the city Yeltsin was constantly followed by crowds of reporters and ordinary citizens. In the photo taken from the archives of The Vladivostok newspaper Yeltsin joined the line to buy a glass of Russian kvas on Svetlanskaya Street in downtown Vladivostok in August of 1990.
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| Combined reports |
04/25/07 05:26 PM |
| The prosecution of Vladivostok’s Leninsky Court on Tuesday called for a five-year imprisonment for the city’s ex-mayor Yuri Kopylov, who is charged with an abuse of power resulting in a $786,000 debt to a Japanese company. |
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Cadets of the Far Eastern Technical Fishery University, or Dalrybvtuz, evacuated early Tuesday from their dormitory watching the fire raging through the two upper stories of the five-storied building. The fire brigades were fast to arrive to the scene and the blaze was extinguished in 40 minutes. All cadets were evacuated, and no casualties were reported. One cadet suffered from smoke inhalation. Preliminary investigations revealed that a short circuit could not have caused the fire and the possibility of arson is currently being investigated.
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| The Vladivostok News |
04/25/07 05:25 PM |
| No means exist to defend the remaining 30 leopards from ruthless poachers in the Far East of Russia – on April 20 in the territory of the Barsovy National Wildlife Reserve in southern Primorye a leopardess was shot and killed, further diminishing the chances for reproduction among the population of these spotted cats. |
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Photo by Courtesy of Primorye’s branch of WWF
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| By Georgia J. Michlig |
04/24/07 07:35 PM |
| The all too familiar sound of gunfire and police sirens rang out April 16, 2007 on the campus of Virginia Tech in the United States, realizing one of the most brutal massacres on a school campus in the world’s history. Residents of Vladivostok respond with shock, confusion and pointed fingers at lax American gun laws. |
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| by Yuri Bodukhin, The Vladivostok |
04/24/07 07:34 PM |
| Olga Posadskaya, a resident of Nakhodka who got her first retirement subsidy this March, refuses to live on her $56 monthly pension. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
04/24/07 07:31 PM |
| According to the press statement from the regional administration, more than 400,000 residents of Primorye participated in the subbotnik. In Vladivostok the number of adamant supporters of Lenin’s idea of volunteer city cleaning reached some 40,000 residents. |
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Photo by Nina Petrukhina
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