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Vladivostok Novosti Company
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Issue 605 :: Tuesday, February 5, 2008
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| The Vladivostok News |
02/08/08 06:38 PM |
| 84 percent of Russians recently interviewed by Levada polling agency consider smoking pot a morally wrong action, an immense number compared to 50 percent of Americans who think the same according to the Pew Research Center. Those numbers were identical to the percentages of people in Russia and America who disapprove of homosexual relations - 84 percent of Russians and 50 percent of Americans consider it immoral. |
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| Combined reports |
02/07/08 04:22 PM |
| Sixty seven people were killed and more than 550 injured in 39 regions of Russia in 2007 in ethnically motivated crimes, the country's leading rights groups recently reported, highlighting that xenophobia is on the rise. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
02/07/08 04:22 PM |
| In January 2008, military forces of the Russian Far East started training flights of SU-24, upgraded bombers which they received from the Russian Air Force last December. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
02/07/08 04:21 PM |
| About 1,000 people had to be evacuated from the building of the Gorky Theater in Vladivostok on Wednesday evening after the theater’s management received a bomb threat by telephone. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
02/06/08 06:44 PM |
| On February 4, security guards at a bus depot in Primorye’s city of Nakhodka detained a man who slashed the tires of 23 passenger buses in a vindictive act against the transport company that had fired him. |
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Photo by Vasily Fedorchenko
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| Combined reports |
02/06/08 06:43 PM |
| Over 600,000 debtors of various sorts were registered in Primorye in 2007, a jump of 30 percent from the previous year, the region’s chief bailiff Andrei Uglov told reporters Wednesday. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
02/06/08 06:43 PM |
| Twenty one men, allegedly members of an organized crime ring, will face charges in a Khabarovsk court on their involvement in robberies, extortions, drug and arms trafficking- altogether 29 cases, police officials reported. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
02/05/08 07:17 PM |
| Scrap metal collectors cut out 3.5 meters of the pipeline supplying drinking water to the Primorye city of Nakhodka, leaving some 10,000 residents tap-dry on Sunday. |
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| Anton Lepnitsky, specially for The Vladivostok |
02/05/08 07:17 PM |
 Whenever demographic policy of the Primorye region is discussed, the issue of migration immediately comes to attention. During a recent seminar in the town of Arseniev, the discussion took a sudden turn and focused on the touchy issue of the return of ethnic Koreans to Primorye from where they had been forcedly deported in 1937 under Joseph Stalin’s regime. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
02/05/08 07:16 PM |
| A Chinese court has sentenced two of its citizens who murdered a Primorye tourist and injured another in an attempted robbery last September, to a death sentence and a ten-year imprisonment respectively, news reports said. |
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