Issue 612 – Mirror of Vladivostok News

Issue 612 :: Tuesday, March 25, 2008


Special reports Jet downed by partner’s missile
Combined reports	03/27/08 04:50 PM
An Su-25 military jet aircraft which exploded March 20 in the Russian Far East while performing a training flight might have been accidentally hit by a missile fired from another plane, investigators said.
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Special reports 2 killed by avalanche in Yakutia
Combined reports	03/26/08 06:09 PM
Rescuers have evacuated a group of tourists by helicopter in the Far Eastern region of Yakutia after an avalanche struck, leaving two people dead and one injured on Tuesday, emergency officials reported.
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Special reports Rotten caviar confiscated
The Vladivostok News	03/26/08 06:07 PM
Specialists from Russia’s agricultural watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor seized five tons of caviar with expired shelf-life in Vladivostok, a statement from Primorye’s Department of Rosselkhoznadzor reported Wednesday.
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Special reports Far East envoy demands intensive crime efforts
The Vladivostok News	03/25/08 07:37 PM
Law enforcement organizations have not applied all their resources to make anti-crime efforts in the Russian Far East systematic and active, the presidential envoy to the region Oleg Safonov told reporters in Khabarovsk on Tuesday.
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Special reports Street snack sends students to hospital
The Vladivostok News	03/25/08 09:37 PM
Primorye’s Department of Russia’s consumer watchdog, Rospotrebnadzor, has begun inspections of Vladivostok’s fast food street outlets, after 34 people were hospitalized with salmonella infections after consuming shaverma at one of the local kiosks.
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