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Issue 603 :: Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Special reports Russian ship missing in East China Sea

Combined reports 01/25/08 05:41 PM
A joint search effort is underway to locate a Russian cargo ship missing in the East China Sea, news reports cited a statement from Vladivostok’s Marine Rescue Center as saying Friday.
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Special reports Far Eastern Customs reveals annual results

The Vladivostok News 01/24/08 10:43 PM
In 2007, the total trade turnover through Russia’s Far Eastern Customs amounted to a total of $26.3 billion indicating a 62 percent growth as compared to 2006, a press statement from the Far Eastern Customs Department reported on Thur
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Business Russian athletes to train for Olympic Games in Primorye

The Vladivostok News 01/23/08 05:01 PM
Russia’s sports teams will have preparation sessions for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Primorye which borders China, the next host of the games.
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Crime watch Internet date turns into murder

The Vladivostok News 01/23/08 05:01 PM
A Khabarovsk court is to consider a murder case against a man who killed an internet acquaintance for profit, prosecutors said.
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Special reports Primorye, S. Korea discuss economic prospects

The Vladivostok News 01/23/08 05:00 PM
Primorye’s Governor Sergei Darkin met on Tuesday the newly appointed S. Korean Consul in Vladivostok Kim Moo Young to discuss further prospects of partnership between the region and South Korea, a statement from the regional administration reported.
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Vladivostok by Braille Ask the water, ask the salt

By Alyona Sokolova 01/22/08 04:27 PM
Russia is a peculiar nation which manages to cheerfully combine and enjoy the traditions of its unmixable layers of history. As atheism was the way of the land after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, people keep traditions of the Soviet times and meet the New Year with a bottle of champagne. A week later, on January 7, they cheer the religious holiday of Orthodox Christmas but spend the following two weeks participating in carnivals, games and fortune-telling, the latter strictly forbidden by church.
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Armed with lucky hands, a woman attempts to uncover her future during the fortune telling demonstrations at the Arseniev Museum on Saturday, Epiphany Day for the Russian Orthodox Church.

Photo by Alyona Sokolova

Armed with lucky hands, a woman attempts to uncover her future during the fortune telling demonstrations at the Arseniev Museum on Saturday, Epiphany Day for the Russian Orthodox Church.

Special reports 4 Ships ice-locked in Sea of Okhotsk

Combined reports 01/22/08 04:27 PM
On Sunday emergency crews evacuated nine of the 14 sailors on board the four ships which got trapped in ice in the Sea of Okhotsk on January 18.
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