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Issue 607 :: Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Special reports Disabled man rejects $100,000 US offer

The Vladivostok News 02/22/08 08:08 PM
Alexander Kashin, a disabled man who on Tuesday started a hunger strike after failing for ten years to receive a monetary compensation from the former U.S. Consul General in Vladivostok, has refused to accept $100,000 payment from the US State Department and continues his ‘water-only’ protest.
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Social life Darkin reports progress in Primorye

By Alyona Sokolova 02/22/08 08:06 PM
Unemployment and poverty has decreased in the region, Primorye’s Governor Sergei Darkin pompously announced in his annual report Tuesday, revealing later that 18 percent of the region’s residents still live in meager conditions compared to those who may enjoy the average monthly salary of 13,200 rubles ($540).
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Business Far Eastern fish council proposes crab halt

The Vladivostok News 02/21/08 05:33 PM
The Russian Far Eastern Research and Fishing Council at a recent meeting in Vladivostok recommended a complete halt of authorized crab catching in the country’s Far East, thus exposing illegal crabs appearing in neighboring Asian fish markets.
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Special reports Vladivostok fortress appears in finals

Combined reports 02/20/08 05:10 PM
The Vladivostok fortress, the city’s collection of military batteries, fortifications and bunkers constructed at the turn of the 20th century, and Russia’s unique architectural monument of historical and cultural value, has made it to the finals of the national contest: ‘Russia’s Seven Wonders’.
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One of the forts which comprise the Vladivostok fortress, Russia’s national architectural monument of historical and cultural value built in the beginning of the 20th century.

Photo by Vasily Fedorchenko

One of the forts which comprise the Vladivostok fortress, Russia’s national architectural monument of historical and cultural value built in the beginning of the 20th century.

Crime watch Shopping mall robbed

The Vladivostok News 02/20/08 05:09 PM
Unknown intruders on Tuesday robbed a shopping mall in Vladivostok, making off with an estimated sum of 10 million rubles ($408,100), police said.
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Crime watch Crab poaching captain sentenced to 2 years

The Vladivostok News 02/20/08 05:09 PM
A Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky court on Wednesday sentenced the captain of a crab poaching vessel which sank after being chased by border guards to two years in a colony-settlement, a minimum security prison in Russia.
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Special reports Disabled Russian on hunger-strike against US authorities

The Vladivostok 02/19/08 07:27 PM
Alexander Kashin Primorye resident Alexander Kashin, who was partially paralyzed in a car accident which involved former U.S. Consul General to the Russian Far East Douglas Kent in Vladivostok in 1998, went on a hunger-strike Monday as a ‘protest against the disregard of law by U.S. authorities’. For ten years, Kashin has been unsuccessful in trying to receive monetary compensation from Kent.
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Special reports Big presidential promises for Far East

The Vladivostok News 02/19/08 07:25 PM
In his last annual press conference before the upcoming March elections Russian President Vladimir Putin praised the country’s economic growth but lamented over the depopulation of the remotest region of Russia – the Far East.
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Environment Hungry tiger slays leopard

The Vladivostok News 02/19/08 07:25 PM
An Amur tiger killed and ate a Far Eastern leopard in an encounter in Primorye’s Khasansky County which environmentalists attribute to a ‘lack of food’, a press statement from the Far Eastern branch of Russia’s WWF (World Wildlife Fund) reported February 15.
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