Vladivostok Novosti Company

Issue 605 :: Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Special reports Ethnic crimes hit record highs in Russia

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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Special reports Upgraded SU-24 bombers train in Khabarovsk skies

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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Special reports Fired man takes revenge on tires

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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Special reports Debtors, penalties multiply in Primorye

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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Special reports Nakhodka suffers water cut

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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Special reports Ethnic Koreans in Russia – resettlement for good

Anton Lepnitsky, specially for The Vladivostok 02/05/08 07:17 PM
A view of Korean Village ‘Druzhba’ settled in Mikhailovsky County, southern Primorye.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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