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Issue 594 :: Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Social life Bridge plan unveiled

The Vladivostok News 11/16/07 09:50 PM
Designers from Omsk, central Russia, presented project plans for a bridge linking Vladivostok with its Russky Island to Primorye Governor Sergei Darkin on Wednesday, a statement from the regional administration reported.
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A view of the Bosfor Vostochny Strait which is to be crossed by the suspension bridge to Russky Island.

Photo by Yuri Maltsev

A view of the Bosfor Vostochny Strait which is to be crossed by the suspension bridge to Russky Island.

Business Tumen River project discussed in Vladivostok

The Vladivostok News 11/16/07 09:49 PM
A view of the Russian side of the Friendship Bridge over the Tumannaya River (Tumen River) with its border outpost overlooking North Korea.The “Extended Tumangan Initiative – extension of cooperation in North-Eastern Asia” two-day investment forum opened in Vladivostok on Thursday to discuss ways to further develop the Tumen River territory, though some experts believe that the project is not beneficial for Russia.
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Special reports Ex, current governors meet for tea

The Vladivostok 11/16/07 09:48 PM
Primorye’s present and ex governors, Sergei Darkin (left) and Yevgeny Nazdratenko, stand in front of the map of Primorye region in the governor’s office on Thursday, both holding onto the gubernatorial chair. Yevgeny Nazdratenko, Primorye’s ex-governor and predecessor of Sergei Darkin, paid a visit to the regional administration on Thursday, raising rumors and speculation that he may return to Primorye. The visit, however, was made out of more personal reasons.
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Vladivostok by Braille Russia’s winter heat

By Cedric Gras 11/16/07 09:47 PM
In Russia I have never suffered from cold but paradoxically from the heat – a dry, arid, enervating, irritating heat. It is an atmosphere of unbearable summer nights which every time reminds me of hot summer days in the south of France during my childhood or the furnaces beneath the tents in the mountains all of the world, when the sunrays start to pierce immediately after the fresh dawn and awake us in sweat. When I was a child I swore a hundred times that I preferred the polar ice to the burning puffs of July and dark clouds to all these cloudless skies of a desiccated blue, almost faded by the sun.
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Special reports Radioactive devices, soil found in Khabarovsk

The Vladivostok News 11/14/07 02:54 PM
Radiation and biohazard specialists have removed over 1,600 radiation-emitting items and 200 cubic meters of radioactive soil from a field hockey arena construction site in Khabarovsk, a press statement from the regional Department for Emergency Situations said on Monday.
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Special reports Russia, China to cooperatively combat smuggling

The Vladivostok News 11/13/07 04:43 PM
Russian and Chinese customs officials have agreed to strengthen cooperation in the fight against contraband by improving information exchange on goods crossing the border, a statement from the Russian Far East’s customs department said.
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Opinion Where are my ruby slippers?

By Nicholas Barrett 11/13/07 04:43 PM
The traveler’s eye arrives in Vladivostok, Russia unprepared for the clothing it will find. It has been perhaps to such fashionably banal locales as Dublin, Ireland or Dublin, Ohio, and Meccas such as Paris and Milan; the unique countrysides of Austria and South Korea, and business and political capitals such as Manhattan and Beijing. But the Russian Far East’s largest port city, and therefore the nation’s Pacific trade center, can daily baffle and stun even a person with such eyes who months ago took up residence in the downtown area.
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Young chess players go head to head at the Far Eastern youth chess tournament in Vladivostok on November 9. The nine-day competition, held at the city’s Far Eastern State Technical University, involved youth eight to 18 years of age from different parts of the Russian Far East, including Primorye, Sakhalin, Kamchatka, Yakutia, Khabarovsk and Amur regions.

Photo by Vasily Fedorchenko

Young chess players go head to head at the Far Eastern youth chess tournament in Vladivostok on November 9. The nine-day competition, held at the city’s Far Eastern State Technical University, involved youth eight to 18 years of age from different parts of the Russian Far East, including Primorye, Sakhalin, Kamchatka, Yakutia, Khabarovsk and Amur regions.

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