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Issue 611 :: Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Vladivostok by Braille Vladivostok Fast Food: Time to go Vegetarian
By Brian Roche	03/21/08 06:05 PM
I grew up in the United States so I know a good hamburger when I see one and one of my first questions upon arriving in Vladivostok regarded the fast food situation. I rejoiced to hear that there were several restaurants that mimicked Western chains but soon realized that I would not be frequenting these places.
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Social life Russians reveal employment attitudes
The Vladivostok News	03/21/08 06:04 PM
Most employed Russians are afraid of losing their jobs, a recent poll by the National Public Opinion Studies Center VTsIOM revealed.
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Special reports Military jet crashes, pilot killed
Combined reports	03/21/08 06:03 PM
An investigative unit from the Far Eastern Military Prosecutor’s Office has launched an inspection into the crash of a Su-25 military jet aircraft which occurred in central Primorye on Thursday, killing the pilot.
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Special reports Measures taken to ease soaring bread prices
The Vladivostok News	03/21/08 12:00 PM
Russia’s Grain Insurance Fund will sell 12,000 tons of grain to the country’s Far Eastern region of Primorye in order to stabilize the skyrocketing prices for bread, with some varieties last week seeing increases of 25 percent, the Agriculture Minister Alexei Gordeyev said Wednesday.
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Business Vladivostok awaits construction bids announcement
Combined reports	03/21/08 11:57 AM
Bids for preparing feasibility studies for the projects planned to be constructed for the APEC summit in Vladivostok will be announced open starting April 1, the federal officials said after the meeting in Moscow on Wednesday.
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Social life France, Primorye to boost links
The Vladivostok News	03/19/08 05:37 PM
Primorye Governor Sergei Darkin and Stanislas de Laboulaye, the French Ambassador to Russia, on Monday in Vladivostok signed an agreement of intentions to develop cultural and educational cooperation between the Primorye region and France.
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Business Swiss to invest in Sakhalin project
The Vladivostok News	03/19/08 05:36 PM
A Swiss company will construct a hotel and a sports complex in the Far Eastern region of Sakhalin, a $50 million project that was agreed upon at last week’s 2008 MIPIM World’s Property Market in Cannes, France.
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Special reports Candidates for Vladivostok mayor boast prominent names
The Vladivostok News	03/19/08 05:35 PM
Two months before mayoral elections in Vladivostok, six people have announced their intention to compete for the key post of the city with two of the names being Cherevkov and Nikolayeva.
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Social life Soldiers’ graves and memorial neglected
By Lubov Berchanskaya	03/18/08 07:31 PM
As a result of desolation and construction, Vladivostok’s memorial cemetery to soldiers who died in the Battle of Lake Khasan in southern Primorye 70 years ago, is surrounded by weeds, loam and rocks.
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