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Issue 601 :: Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Business Japan to donate $1.4 million to Sakhalin

The Vladivostok News 01/11/08 10:43 PM
Japan plans to allocate 150 million yen to support implementation of economic and social reforms on Russia’s Sakhalin Island, a statement from Sakhalin’s administration reported Wednesday.
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Crime watch 32 tons of caviar seized in Vladivostok

The Vladivostok News 01/11/08 10:43 PM
Some 32 metric tons of uncertified salmon caviar, which arrived Thursday on a Sakhalin ship in Vladivostok, were detained by specialists of Primorye’s branch of Rosselkhoznadzor, Russia’s agriculture products watchdog.
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Environment Tigers go hungry, victims drunk or scrawny

The Vladivostok News 01/10/08 06:36 PM
In early January a man was attacked by a tiger in the taiga forest in the Khabarovsky region but luckily survived the encounter after the animal decided to leave the intoxicated victim without inflicting fatal injuries. Another tiger decided to feast on cows in a village in the Primorsky region but had to go away hungry due to extreme slenderness of the cows.
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Environment National park suffers timber cuttings

The Vladivostok News 01/10/08 06:36 PM
One of Primorye’s two national parks ‘Udegeiskaya Legenda’ located in the Krasnoarmeisky County has recently suffered from massive forest cuttings, the unlawful permission being issued by Primorye’s administration forestry department.
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A mound of trees chopped down by Roshchinsky logging company in the National Park ‘Udegeiskaya Legenda’ in December.

Photo by Phoenix Fund

A mound of trees chopped down by Roshchinsky logging company in the National Park ‘Udegeiskaya Legenda’ in December.

Business Crab catches banned

The Vladivostok News 01/10/08 06:35 PM
Quotas for crab catches have been slashed by 20 percent for the year 2008 and the catches are allowed for scientific purposes only, a spokesman for Goskomrybolovstvo, or Russian Fishing Committee, Alexander Savelyev said Wednesday.
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Special reports Fishermen found 3 months after shipwreck

Combined reports 01/09/08 04:28 PM
Eleven people who got trapped in an isolated bay southeast of the Kamchatka peninsula in early October after a shipwreck and had to survive for three months on a deserted military base, were rescued on January 4 and taken to the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
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Social life Food price hike forecasted

The Vladivostok News 01/09/08 04:28 PM
Food prices in Russia may jump 10-percent in February when food producers and traders will be free from an obligation to hold back prices for the so called ‘social products’ like milk, bread and butter.
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Primorye’s Archbishop Veniamin giving his blessing to a young woman on January 7, Orthodox Christmas Day, in Vladivostok’s Cathedral of the Intercession of the Holy God’s Mother.

Photo by Vladimir Pavlov

Primorye’s Archbishop Veniamin giving his blessing to a young woman on January 7, Orthodox Christmas Day, in Vladivostok’s Cathedral of the Intercession of the Holy God’s Mother.

Crime watch Bridge scrapped in Khabarovsk

The Vladivostok News 01/09/08 04:26 PM
Two days prior to the New Year celebrations, unknown persons dismantled an automobile bridge in Khabarovsk, presumably to profit from selling its metal parts to local scrap metal dealers.
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