Issue 569 – Mirror of Vladivostok News

Issue 569 :: Tuesday, May 15, 2007


Arts and Ideas Museums to hold night of expositions
The Vladivostok News	05/18/07 07:25 PM
Six Vladivostok museums and galleries will feature their exhibitions for city residents and guests in a ‘Night of Museums’, as a part of the annual international project to celebrate International Museum Day. The event will begin Saturday evening and finish in the early hours of Sunday.
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Special reports Gas blasts building, 3 injured
The Vladivostok News	05/18/07 07:25 PM
Three elderly women received injuries and were hospitalized as a result of a gas explosion in a two-story residential building in the village of Yakovlevka in central Primorye on Friday.
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Photo by Vladimir Pavlov A motorcyclist displays his mastery of hands-off maneuvering skills in a Vladivostok street on Tuesday.
Special reports Inspector kept on board round-the-clock
The Vladivostok News	05/17/07 05:29 PM
The Environmental Inspectorate for Russia’s Natural Resources Ministry intends to file a case against a Sakhalin company whose tanker had taken off to sea with the inspectorate’s official still on board without informing the latter about the sudden departure.
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Social life Photo hunt for garbage villains
Vostok Media	05/17/07 05:28 PM
Officials in the town of Birobidzhan in the Jewish Autonomous region have recently introduced a new means to fight careless citizens who fail to place their garbage bags into the appointed containers thus littering the town’s territories – they capture photos of the cleanliness violators.
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Environment Timber cutting destroys taiga
by Vera Konyukhova	05/16/07 11:00 PM
Timber carrying trucks are a common sight in Krasnoarmeisky County, northern Primorye. Loaded trucks travel from the northern part of the county, carrying linden and cedar timber cut in the dense and rich woodland, restricted for forest exploitation.
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Photo by Yuri Maltsev Yekaterina Gaidukova, 17, takes the Miss Primorye-2007 crown after winning the regional beauty contest on May 11. The new Primorye beauty queen studies foreign languages, dancing and attends the modeling academy. This autumn Gaidukova will represent Primorye in Moscow’s ‘Miss Russia’ beauty pageant.
Special reports Yakutia flees flood
Combined reports	05/15/07 10:41 PM
As of Tuesday more than 1,118 residents of the Yakutia region in the Russian Far East have been evacuated from their homes which were flooded by spring melt over the last four days, emergency agencies said.
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Crime watch Policeman murders woman, two others cover up
The Vladivostok News	05/15/07 10:39 PM
Primorye’s regional court on Monday pronounced a 17-year imprisonment sentence to a policeman who murdered a woman after failing to register her apartment robbery case and fearing she might file a complaint against him.
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