Issue 602 – Mirror of Vladivostok News

Issue 602 :: Tuesday, January 15, 2008


Social life Two families make migration program in Far East
Combined reports	01/18/08 10:42 PM
Only two families have arrived to settle in the Khabarovsk region in the Far East of Russia under the program of voluntary resettlement of Russia’s compatriots residing in former CIS countries, officials announced at the meeting Thursday.
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Business Energy investments to power Primorye
The Vladivostok News	01/17/08 04:36 PM
Russia’s energy utility company Unified Energy Systems, or RAO UES, will invest a total of 6 billion rubles ($246.9 million) into modernizing Primorye’s energy infrastructure, a statement from the regional administration reported Thursday.
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Special reports Japanese official faces charges for selling secrets to Russia
Combined reports	01/17/08 04:36 PM
Japanese police have pressed charges against an official in the intelligence office who allegedly divulged classified information to a Russian diplomat in Tokyo, Japanese reports said Wednesday.
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Special reports Khabarovsk election committee awarded mocking medal
Combined reports	01/16/08 06:33 PM
Members of Khabarovsk regional branch of Russia’s Communist Party presented on Tuesday the satirical medal ‘For Assistance in Election Fraud’ to Viktor Tsyrfa, head of the regional election committee, as part of their actions to protest the ‘fraudulent December State Duma elections.’
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Special reports Two sailors missing in stormy waters
Combined reports	01/16/08 06:32 PM
The Russian vessel Atlant and Japanese boats have resumed the search for two sailors who went missing in a storm near Kurils on Monday, news reports said.
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Crime watch Shooting spree in Vladivostok
The Vladivostok News	01/15/08 05:45 PM
An Azeri businessman was killed in Vladivostok in what is alleged to be settling scores between the city’s ethnic criminal groups on January 11, while a night club guard was shot down and five club visitors were wounded in two other unrelated shooting incidents on January 12 and 14, police reports said.
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Crime watch Sakhalin policeman gunned down in office
The Vladivostok News	01/15/08 05:45 PM
On Sunday night in the city of Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky in Sakhalin region a senior police investigator was hit with a bullet to the chest through a window while he was sitting in his office situated on the fourth floor, police said.
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