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Issue 608 :: Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Business Iskhakov rebukes money delays for Vladivostok construction

Combined reports 02/29/08 05:59 PM
The federal financing for the Asian-Pacific Economic Summit to be held in Vladivostok in 2012 is delayed which may result in failing to meet the deadlines for construction of the key structures, Kamil Iskhakov, deputy head of the Ministry for Regional Development told reporters on Thursday in Moscow.
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Special reports Vladivostok mayoral elections set for May

Combined reports 02/29/08 05:57 PM
Vladivostok Duma deputies on Thursday ruled that the city’s residents will elect their new mayor on May 18, more than a year after the former mayor Vladimir Nikolayev was arrested on charges of embezzlement and abuse of power.
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Special reports Cadet’s mother denies suicide

The Vladivostok 02/28/08 06:17 PM
“My son was killed for an expensive mobile telephone,” says Yelena Salnikova, mother of the cadet who was found hanged in an Ussurisk military school on February 22.
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Special reports Transneft to start oil terminal construction in Kozmino

The Vladivostok News 02/28/08 06:17 PM
Construction of a terminal in a village of Kozmino, a final point for the Siberian oil pipeline starting in Taishet, will start in March, Transneft president Nikolai Tokarev announced in Vladivostok on Wednesday.
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Crime watch Man finds unexpected party in his flat

The Vladivostok News 02/28/08 06:16 PM
Upon returning home from work late on Wednesday evening and seeing lights on in his apartment, a Vladivostok resident called police to discover that 14 young men were having a drinking party in his first floor flat.
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Special reports Hungry for justice

By Alyona Sokolova 02/27/08 09:39 PM
Alexander Kashin, a man who became paralyzed from his chest down in a car accident involving former US Consul General in Vladivostok Douglas Kent, for ten days keeps his hunger protest saying “I will die or receive money.” He claims $10 million from the US State Department.
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Alexander Kashin photographed in a wheelchair in his room in the settlement of Bolshoi Kamen on Tuesday, the ninth day of his hunger-strike against the US State Department.

Photo by Vasily Fedorchenko

Alexander Kashin photographed in a wheelchair in his room in the settlement of Bolshoi Kamen on Tuesday, the ninth day of his hunger-strike against the US State Department.

Crime watch S. Korean company, captain penalized

The Vladivostok News 02/27/08 09:39 PM
The captain of a S. Korean vessel and the company which owns it will pay a total of 1.5 million rubles ($61,225) as compensation for violating fishing laws in Russia’s territorial waters, the court of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in the Kamchatka region ruled.
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Special reports 3 foreigners detained on border

The Vladivostok News 02/27/08 09:38 PM
Two US citizens and a British citizen who traveled to Khasansky County in southern Primorye to gaze at the Russian- N. Korean border were detained by Russian border guards and escorted out of the territory after they failed to present the required documents.
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Crime watch Cadet found hanged in Ussurisk

Combined reports 02/26/08 11:10 PM
The Military Prosecutor’s Office in Primorye’s town of Ussurisk has launched an investigation into the case of a cadet at a local Suvorov Military School who was found hanged on February 22, news reports said.
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Special reports N. Korea to free Russian ship

Combined reports 02/26/08 11:09 PM
Border authorities in the N. Korean port of Kimchaek agreed on Monday to release a Russian cargo ship which was detained by N. Korean coastguards in the Sea of Japan February 23 on accusations of trespassing the country’s border.
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