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Issue 618 :: Sunday, May 4, 2008

Special reports Rector faces charges for locking up bailiff

The Vladivostok News 05/08/08 04:27 PM
The rector of Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service (VSUES) Gennady Lazarev faces a criminal investigation on charges of interference and impediment with a court bailiff’s activities and his illegal temporary detainment on the university’s premises.
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Special reports Primorye beefs up virus control

The Vladivostok News 05/08/08 04:26 PM
Primorye’s Department of Russia’s consumer watchdog Rospotrebnadzor has tightened control over China-imported food entering Primorye markets, as a result of a mass intestinal virus infection in southeast China’s Anhui Province which has killed 28 children.
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Crime watch N. Korean worker starves to death in Sakhalin

The Vladivostok News 05/08/08 04:25 PM
A North Korean worker died from starvation at a Sakhalin logging site after he and another worker were left there last August and forgotten by their Russian employers ever since.
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Crime watch Man kills masseuse for bad service

The Vladivostok News 05/08/08 04:24 PM
A Khabarovsk court sentenced a man who choked to death the woman giving him a massage because he was dissatisfied with the service, to 15 years in prison.
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In beauty we trust. Twelve of the most gorgeous women in Primorye striving for the crown on May 2 during a beauty pageant in Vladivostok. Yevgenia Shcherbakova, a student at Far Eastern Technological Institute, triumphed and won the title of “Miss Primorye”.

Photo by Yuri Maltsev

In beauty we trust. Twelve of the most gorgeous women in Primorye striving for the crown on May 2 during a beauty pageant in Vladivostok. Yevgenia Shcherbakova, a student at Far Eastern Technological Institute, triumphed and won the title of “Miss Primorye”.

Business S. Korean car giant mulls over transit plans

The Vladivostok News 05/06/08 08:17 PM
South Korea’s largest automaker Hyundai Motor Company is considering the possibility of transporting auto parts to its car producing factories in Russia and CIS countries through the ports in Nakhodka, a statement from the city administration reported Tuesday.
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Social life Disabled children starve in Jewish region

The Vladivostok News 05/06/08 08:16 PM
161 children residing in the Valdgeimsky home for disabled children in the Jewish Autonomous region suffer from malnutrition since the regional financing for one child is a meager 45 rubles ($2) per day.
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Sports Handicapped sportsmen demonstrate power in Arseniev

The Vladivostok News 05/05/08 03:42 PM
Twenty eight teams of the disabled sportsmen from all over the Primorye region took part in the sporting event “Invasport-2008”held in the end of April in Primorye’s city of Arseniev.
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Social life Smoking bus drivers punished in Nakhodka

The Vladivostok News 05/05/08 03:42 PM
Smoking bus drivers were photographed by passengers with mobiles and fined for their bad habit, Nakhodka’s city administration recently reported.
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Devoted members of the Communist Party march and entertain themselves with balalaika folk songs during May Day demonstrations in Vladivostok on Thursday. According to Primorye’s administration, more than 25,000 residents participated in the march celebrating May 1, Labor and Spring Day in Russia.

Photo by Yuri Maltsev

Devoted members of the Communist Party march and entertain themselves with balalaika folk songs during May Day demonstrations in Vladivostok on Thursday. According to Primorye’s administration, more than 25,000 residents participated in the march celebrating May 1, Labor and Spring Day in Russia.

Business Sakhalin, Netherlands happy with cooperation

The Vladivostok News 05/04/08 07:46 PM
In 2007, Dutch companies invested $3.3 billion into intensely developing oil and gas projects of Sakhalin Island, thus expanding the overall investment of the Netherlands to $17.5 billion, Sakhalin’s administration recently reported.
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Special reports Russian, U.S. navy cooks to serve up sandwich styles

Combined reports 05/04/08 07:46 PM
Russian and U.S. fleet cooks will demonstrate their skills at a sandwich-making contest to occur in the Far Eastern port of Vladivostok on Wednesday.
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Special reports 3 boys missing in Khabarovsk region

The Vladivostok News 05/04/08 07:45 PM
Rescue crews and police continue searching for three children who went missing in the Khabarovsk region on April 29, but as of Sunday the search operation has not brought any results, a statement from the regional police reported.
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