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Vladivostok Novosti Company
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Issue 609 :: Tuesday, March 4, 2008
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| The Vladivostok News |
03/07/08 07:49 PM |
| Three fourths of Russians are planning to cook pancakes at this week’s Maslenitsa, or Pancake Week, Russia’s folk and religious holiday traditionally enjoyed by people of all ages and symbolizing the end of winter, a survey revealed. |
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Photo by Vasily Fedorchenko
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| The Vladivostok News |
03/06/08 04:24 PM |
| The volume of international trade in Primorye climbed by 28 percent in 2007 earning $5.8 billion, the regional administration reported. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
03/06/08 04:23 PM |
| Experts from Russia’s agricultural watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor detained four tons of canned scallops from China at the Vladivostok port on Thursday saying the cargo contained toxic elements. |
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| By Alyona Sokolova |
03/05/08 06:01 PM |
| “Europe has not arrived in Vladivostok yet but there is a market for European culture here,” Cedric Gras, co-director of Alliance Francaise in Vladivostok said, adding that his organization is ready to do the first step presenting an extensive program of French culture to start Thursday. |
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| By Maria Shimanskaya |
03/05/08 06:00 PM |
| Since 2003, the number of drug users registered in Primorye has declined by 19 percent, the head of Primorye’s Department of Federal Drug Control Service Alexander Rolik revealed at a press conference on Tuesday. |
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Photo by Yuri Maltsev
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| The Vladivostok News |
03/04/08 04:36 PM |
| Dmitry Medvedev, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hand-picked candidate, unsurprisingly cruised to an easy victory in Sunday’s presidential election, receiving 70.2 percent of the vote. In the remote Far Eastern regions of Russia, the numbers for Medvedev varied from 63 percent in Magadan to a massive 81.4 percent in Chukotka. |
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| The Vladivostok |
03/04/08 04:36 PM |
| Alexander Kashin, a disabled 32-year-old man who started a hunger protest on February 18 against the US State Department claiming $10 million in damages to be paid for his injuries in a car accident involving former US Consul General in Vladivostok Douglas Kent, had to stop his actions on February 29 after being taken to a local hospital. |
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| The Vladivostok News |
03/04/08 04:35 PM |
| Vladivostok’s garrison court started hearings on Monday in the case of a senior officer who extorted money from cadets in the city’s Pacific Naval Institute of Admiral Makarov for several years, a statement from Pacific Fleet’s Prosecutor’s Office said. |
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Photo by Vasily Fedorchenko
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