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Mr Putin, who is due to arrive in Australia this morning, will seek support from APEC leaders for Russia's bid to chair the organisation's 2012 summit in its Pacific port city of Vladivostok ... Mr Putin announced the bid to chair APEC in 2012 earlier this year and suggested building a large resort area on Russky Island, off Vladivostok, to host the annual leaders' summit. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
From Sydney head towards Vladivostok Sep 7, 2007
It is not by chance we have suggested the summit be held in the eastern part of our country, in Vladivostok ... au/news/opinion/from-sydney-head-towards-vladivostok/2007/09/06/1188783414011. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Russian Bears force RAF to scramble Sep 7, 2007
To Kirill, Vladivostok, I say "Yes!" It is a good practice all round - your younger pilots need it too; I imagine most of your 'cold war' pilots have retired through age and epic boredom ... Kirill, Vladivostok, Russian Federation. (Times Online)
Today in History August 23 Aug 23, 2007
Five years ago: North Korean leader Kim Jong Il made his second visit to Russia in a year, meeting with President Vladimir Putin in Vladivostok. New York publicist Lizzie Grubman pleaded guilty in a hit-and-run crash that injured 16 people outside a Hamptons nightclub. (MSNBC -- Race)
Click for Full Story Aug 23, 2007
"In 1982, Lebanon's parliament elected Christian militia leader Bashir Gemayel president. (However, Gemayel was assassinated some three weeks later.)In 1989, in a case that inflamed racial tensions in New York City, Yusuf Hawkins, a 16-year-old black youth, was shot dead after he and his friends were confronted by white youths in theBensonhurst section of Brooklyn. Ten years ago: In his weekly radio address, President Clinton said he would ask Congress to renew his authority for speedy... (KWTX.com, TX)
Expert: SCO drill to improve joint anti-terror capability Aug 15, 2007
In August 2005, China and Russia launched a high-profile 8-day military exercise in Vladivostok, Russia. The exercise, code-named "Peace Mission 2005," involved nearly 10,000 armed personnel, as well as airborne units, marine corps and logistics units. (Xinhuanet, China)
* Sports Briefs Jul 30, 2007
Russia Spartak Moscow stay top Nine-time champions Spartak Moscow remained top of the Russian league although they were held to a 1-1 draw at Vladivostok on Saturday ... Vladivostok got off to a lively start against Spartak eight minutes into the match when midfielder Dmitry Smirnov swept the ball in following a corner. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Far eastern city of Vladivostok in Russia Jul 29, 2007
An aerial view of Russia's far eastern city of Vladivostok July 28, 2007. Russia's President Vladimir Putin pledged to spend nearly $4 billion turning the Pacific Island of Russky near Vladivostok into a giant resort capable of hosting a 2012 summit of the APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation bloc ... An aerial view of Russky Island's 'Bukhta Truda' (Labour Bay) near Russia's far eastern city of Vladivostok July 28, 2007. (Xinhuanet, China)
North Korea's living exports Jul 25, 2007
An estimated 2,500 North Koreans are to be found in Primorye, or the maritime region adjacent to the Sea of Japan, and almost all of them work at construction sites in Vladivostok and Nakhodka. According to local sources, they sleep in dormitories and eat together under portraits of the late Kim Il-sung and his son, current ruler Kim Jong-il. (Asia Times Online)
* Taiwan Quick Take Jul 18, 2007
TRANSPORT Ministry lauds new flights A Ministry of Foreign Affairs official yesterday welcomed TransAsia Airways' plans for charter flight services between Taipei and Vladivostok, Russia ... Chen Chun-hsien (T), director-general of the ministry's Department of West Asian Affairs, said Russia may sound like a distant country, but the public can get a taste of Russia's Far East by hopping on a three-and-a-half hour flight to Vladivostok ... The ministry has therefore negotiated with Russia... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
* Expanding the European Union, not an empire Jul 4, 2007
Those who were ready to consider cooperation with Gorbachev's Soviet Union in 1990 -- the same year that the Charter of Paris aimed to establish a "Europe from Vancouver to Vladivostok" -- had by 1992 begun to neglect Russia and the other former Soviet republics, with the exception of the Baltic states. Instead, the West chose to pursue only a tactical relationship with Russia's post-Soviet bureaucracy. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Worldwide search Jul 1, 2007
Roman Rudyy and Taras Havrylyukh from the Ukrainian city of Lviv and Marina Kashcheera of Vladivostok, Russia, each 19, arrived in Helena early last month. They will stay and work at the hotel through mid-September, then spend a couple of weeks playing tourist in New York before flying back to their homes and back to college. (Helena Independent Record)
Success in Macao bank case demonstrates reach of U.S. financial sanctions Jun 27, 2007
The transfer was negotiated by the U.S. State Department and the Treasury Department, and it involved the central banks of Russia and Macao, a privately held bank in the Russian city of Vladivostok and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York ... North Korea designated the Far Eastern Commercial Bank in Vladivostok, where it had an account, to receive the funds, but that bank had no formal relationship with Banco Delta Asia that would allow for the funds to be wired. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Morris: Gates pt. 2 Jun 25, 2007
Amid a cacophony of leaks, the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency publicly deplored SALT II -- a glaring breach with the new Ford administration, all the more remarkable because the already beleaguered new president was still pledging to pursue the treaty at a Vladivostok summit that November. Meanwhile, as never before, corporate money poured into what had, until then, been a group of marginal right-wing think tanks like the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and into the campaign... (Zmag.org)
* Taiwan looks to Russia to diversify oil sources Jun 21, 2007
If the Russian authorities can construct an oil pipeline to Vladivostok, Russia's largest port on the Pacific coast which is closer to Taiwan, the company may consider purchasing oil from Russia, Tsao said. Meanwhile, Wu, a former vice premier, said that Taiwan sits in a strategically important location in terms of regional security and crude oil imports, adding that all oil tankers transporting imported crude oil for Japan and South Korea pass through the Taiwan Strait. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
N. Korea fires missile near Japan Jun 20, 2007
Earlier in the day, Hill said that the North Korean account is in a bank in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East and any delay in transferring the money from the central bank would be due to the vast time difference from Moscow. South Korea plans to start shipping 50,000 tons of heavy fuel oil to North Korea by the time it shuts down its nuclear reactor as part of the disarmament deal. (MSNBC -- International)
US Wants Fast Shutdown of NKorea Reactor -AP Jun 19, 2007
Hill said the North Korean account is in a bank in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East and any delay in transferring the money from the central bank would be due to the vast time difference from Moscow. South Korea plans to start shipping 50,000 tons of heavy fuel oil to North Korea by the time it shuts down its nuclear reactor as part of the disarmament deal, Hill's South Korean counterpart, Chun Yung-woo, said earlier. (Guardian Unlimited)
North Korea Back to the Talks Jun 19, 2007
The US managed to unblock the North Korean funds, which it designated in September 2005 as dirty money, by passing them through its official channels: the New York Federal Reserve for transfer to a Russian official bank in Vladivostok, for the final transmission to a North Korean account in a Russian commercial bank. The arrangement absolved the middleman s role played by the Russian commercial bank from any criminal liability, while freeing the North Koreans from similar potential charges. (Asia Sentinel)
Siberian Tiger Gets First National Park In Russian Far East Jun 15, 2007
"We hope Zov Tigra is the first of several new protected areas to be created in the Russian Far East," said Dr. Yuri Darman of WWF s Russian Far East office in Vladivostok. "Increased protection of habitat will help cement a future for these cats and will buffer against the continuous threat of poaching for their bones and skin.". (Science Daily)
Russian Far East bank denies receiving N.Korean fund transfer Jun 15, 2007 Paris to honour small screen at mobile phone film festival Jun 8, 2007 Bullard: The G8 Show Jun 6, 2007 Report: Russia, U.S. to hold joint navy exercises in Sea of Japan in September Jun 5, 2007 Looking to ChinaHow Russia's Far East is moving out of Moscow's orbit Jun 5, 2007 Trans-Siberian for softies May 21, 2007 G8 MEETING Russia's Kudrin says capital inflows pose exchange rate risk UPDATE May 19, 2007 Infotainment May 13, 2007 Facilities on the Trans-Siberian May 10, 2007 * World News Quick Take May 9, 2007 Travelling 'DJ' cons Russian press May 8, 2007 Admiral Stark at Vladivostok 1922 Apr 27, 2007 Trans-Siberian route goes upmarket Apr 27, 2007 Update on census of wrld's most endangered cat -- female Amur leopard found dead Apr 24, 2007 50% Good News Ordered On Russian Radio; United States To Be Portrayed As An Enemy... Apr 22, 2007 Not following the dress code Apr 19, 2007 Utahns complete family odyssey Apr 19, 2007 Amur leopard near extinction, scientists fear Apr 19, 2007 Tropical Losers, Northern Winners From Warming? Apr 3, 2007 For Russia's poor it is just getting worse Mar 15, 2007 Obituaries for Sunday, March 11, 2007 Mar 11, 2007 Dalnesvostok Mar 6, 2007 Vladivostok Mayor Is Forced From Office Mar 1, 2007 20 polytechnic students to sail on world's fastest tall ship Feb 24, 2007 They've Driven A Ford Lately Feb 17, 2007 Trilateral cooperation Feb 15, 2007 FMs of India, Russia, China meet today Feb 14, 2007 'Big three' hold key Delhi talks Feb 14, 2007 Stalin's villa| Feb 11, 2007 Bethlehem welcomes Russian missionaries Feb 10, 2007 Stalin's Ghost Haunts Hotel Feb 7, 2007 Putin 'not running away' Feb 5, 2007 Murdered spy was a thief and a thug, Putin insists Feb 3, 2007 Putin's bid to make bleak eastern island holiday resort Jan 31, 2007 India, China, Russia foreign ministers to hold talks in Feb Jan 29, 2007 Russia accuses Georgia of smear Jan 27, 2007 US group: Russia investigating officials in Politkovskaya killing Jan 24, 2007 Russian television journalist found beaten to death Jan 22, 2007 Russian TV journalist beaten to death Jan 22, 2007 Siberian adventures: Icy but extraordinary Jan 5, 2007
VLADIVOSTOK, June 15 (RIA Novosti) - A bank in Russia's Far East, where the North Korean government has an account, denied that it had received over $23 million of Pyongyang's funds reportedly transferred from a Macao bank account. A senior U.S. official told Japanese media earlier that the sum had been transferred in full from the previously-frozen account. (RIA Novosti)
Russia Declares Second Tiger Park in Span of One Week Jun 12, 2007
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, June 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Adding the second national park for Siberian tigers in the span of one week, the Russian Government this past weekend established "Udege Legend" National Park for tiger conservation and the cultural preservation of an indigenous way of life. Now Russia's protected a total of 419,000 acres of Siberian or Amur tiger habitat as national park. (PR Newswire)
Australian Emmelene Landon made the 38-minute Trans-Siberian to Vladivostok with a 1. 3 megapixel camera on the Nokia phone the festival organisers gave her when she set out on a train trip last year across Russia. (ABC News Online, Australia -- Arts)
In 2005 Russia, China and India held their first "trilateral" meeting in Vladivostok. In February this year, foreign ministers from the three countries met again in Delhi, India, and issued a communiqu in which they noted, "cooperation rather than confrontation should govern to global affairs." They also agreed that the UN is an important platform for multi-polarization and world peace, which de-coded means that they will work inside the UN when it suits them and they will work outside the UN... (Zmag.org)
The drills, called Pacific Eagle, will be the two countries' biggest joint exercise since 1998, said John Mark Pommersheim, U.S. consul general in the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok, according to the Interfax news agency. The U.S. Embassy in Moscow had no immediate comment. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Vladivostok train station is the end of the line on the trans-Siberian railway from Moscow, a distance of more than 6,400km (4,000 miles) or seven time-zones ... You see plenty of them here on the streets of Vladivostok but, says Yulia, their numbers are declining - the traffic is increasingly in the other direction ... "Before, China was nothing, right? And now it becomes something very fast. "So now a lot of Vladivostok people and people from our district go to China. (BBC News -- Europe)
A luxury train will allow travellers to experience the legendary journey from Moscow to Vladivostok in comfort and style ... The Golden Eagle, a private train refitted at a cost of 22m, is an attempt to bring such luxury, more normally associated with the Orient Express, to one of the world's most romanticised journeys, the 10-day rail trip from Moscow to Vladivostok ... Into Mongolia, and the long way rattling down to Vladivostok and the Sea of Japan. (Guardian Unlimited -- Travel)
The projects include a major reconstruction of Vladivostok. He also said he told Omi about Russia's plans to organise an economic forum in that part of the region and to invite countries interested in various investment projects there. (Forbes -- Markets)
Miss Primorye 2007 Vladivostok: Katerina Gaydukova smiles after winning the Miss Primorye 2007 beauty contest. She will represent her region in the Miss Russia 2007 beauty contest later this year. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
Many people dream of traveling from Vladivostok to Moscow on the Trans-Siberian railway, but what is it really like to spend a whole week on a train. Riding the across is a dream trip for many people. (Suite101.com)
But the hoax collapsed last week when he was exposed as a fugitive robber from a village near Vladivostok. He was arrested after police spotted him on a university campus. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
But the hoax collapsed last week when Dzhumaliyev was exposed as a fugitive robber from a village near Vladivostok ... At first he feigned no knowledge of his native tongue, telling police through an interpreter that he was a US citizen of Thai origin called Lamar who was attempting to get into the Guinness Book of Records by travelling from Vladivostok to Murmansk without money or documents. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
The only way Russia could receive vital western war material was through neglected White Sea harbors and the small pacific port of Vladivostok ... The new Bolshevik government s withdrawal from the war in March 1918 prompted Allied naval forces in Vladivostok to land and occupy the town so that the huge stockpiles of war material would not fall into the wrong hands ... Vladivostok, with Stark still in his same post, went on to become the end of the logistics tail for the White Russian... (Suite101.com)
At 5,772 miles it is one of the world's epic train journeys, across eight time zones from Moscow to the far eastern post of Vladivostok ... But is it worth the effort to get to Vladivostok, which many see as entirely missable. (Guardian Unlimited -- Travel)
Vladivostok, Russia -- Following the April 18 announcement that only 25 to 34 of the Amur or Far Eastern leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) remain in the wild, World Wildlife Fund says the number must now be revised because a female Amur leopard was killed. Anonymous tips led officers of two leopard anti-poaching squads to the body of the leopardess on April 20 about two miles from Bamburovo village within the watershed of Alimovka River on the territory of Barsovy National Wildlife Refuge. (EurekAlert!)
I want fresh morning broadcasts and not to fall asleep, one listener, who signed a posting on the station s Web site as Sergei from Vladivostok, complained. Maybe you ve tortured RNS s audience enough. (The Drudge Report)
Don't tell anyone, but it cost $500 in Canadian money to make "Hotel Vladivostok," a 35-minute film that was shown Wednesday as part of a "Shorts Around the World" collection. Ingrid Veninger, one of seven filmmakers from around the world who collaborated on the film, told the audience after the screening that the film came into being in 2005 at the Vladivostok Film Festival in Russia. (Herald-Tribune)
Emily (formerly Svieta) and Annie (Natasha) arrived from Vladivostok late last year their given Russian names are now their middle names. Holding on to booklets about being a citizen, Emily, 15, and Annie, 14, were all smiles after receiving their certificates. (Deseret News)
An endangered Amur leopard prowls near Vladivostok, Russia, in 1997. (Yuri Shibnev). (Globe and Mail)
Portland, Oregon, in the United States and Vladivostok in Russia are roughly on the same latitude. Among regional losers, the draft report says Himalayan glaciers could shrink on current trends to 100,000 sq km by 2030 from 500,000 sq km now. (Planet Ark, United States)
"It's my great passion. I've always wanted to see Vladivostok. But the train ticket is too expensive.". This is one of the strange ironies of post-Soviet Russia. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
He served for two years in Vladivostok, Russia, enduring considerable hardships. Having acquired a love for skiing, he moved to Maine, where he built a cottage on Embden Pond so he could enjoy ice fishing. (Enterprise-Journal)
While visiting Vladivostok on March 1, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov said it was too early to announce more concrete estimates, but he pledged to monitor the disbursement of federal funds ... During a visit to Vladivostok on January 27, Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested spending 100 billion rubles ($3 ... 8 billion) to build a resort area on Russky Island, off the Pacific port of Vladivostok, to host the APEC 2012 summit. (Ocnus.net)
The Mayor's Office in Vladivostok has been beset with scandal ... About 500 people gathered in central Vladivostok to support Nikolayev, Interfax said. (Ocnus.net)
Singapore Polytechnic's Singapore Maritime Academy and the Far Eastern State Technical Fisheries University of Vladivostok in Russia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to exchange expertise in maritime education and develop research programmes and projects. Georgy Nikolayevich Kim, President, Far East State Technical Fisheries, said: "Our countries are the members of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation. And the decision was to hold the next meeting of APEC in our city Vladivostok in... (Channel NewsAsia, Singapore)
The company now has 150 outlets, some as far away as Vladivostok on the Pacific coast and Murmansk in the far north. Ford may face a bumpier ride from here on out. (BusinessWeek)
They met three times over the last two years: twice on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York and once in the Russian port city of Vladivostok. Meeting on the sidelines of the G8 summit in St Petersburg last July, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to push forward cooperation through a trilateral forum. (Xinhuanet, China)
This will be the second stand-alone meeting between the three countries after Russian city of Vladivostok two years back. Foreign Ministers of the three countries have earlier met four times on the sidelines of some international events, including twice on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. (Hindu)
The foreign ministers of the three countries last met in Vladivostok in Russia in 2005. "As Russia's relations .. with China grew deeper, India-China relations .. normalised [and] Beijing and New Delhi manifested mounting interest in contacts with Russia in tripartite format on a wide range of matters of mutual interest..," Russian foreign ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin was quoted saying by the Itar-Tass news agency ahead of the meeting. (BBC News)
For many Russians, Stalin is the mastermind the victory over Nazi Germany, source of great national pride, and ruler of an empire that stretched from East Berlin to Vladivostok. Nearly half of Russians 47 percent view Stalin in a positive light, with less than 30 percent thinking badly of him, a poll published last year by the FOM institute found. (iAfrica.com)
Since 1990 and the collapse of Communism, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ingria has grown to more than 70 congregations, mostly in the former area of Ingria and Karelia, but also as far as Vladivostok. Ministry also is alive in scores of additional villages. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Wednesday, February 07, 2007. Stalin's ghost haunts Black Sea hotel Posted: 07 February 2007 1139 hrs. (Channelnewsasia.com)
One lady, in a sailor-style outfit perhaps inspired by the port city of Vladivostok where she hailed from, told Mr Putin he was "incomparable". Another asked if it was too late to wish Mr Putin a "Happy New Year". (BBC News -- Europe)
Maria Solobyova, a newspaper editor from Vladivostok, began a question on corruption with: Hello, incomparable Vladimir Vladimirovich. She went on: You know everything. (Times Online)
Mr Putin said a resort on Russky island off the Pacific naval port of Vladivostok would provide an ideal venue for Russia to host a 2012 summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation bloc ... "We have a unique opportunity to create a very interesting recreation area on Russky ... for those who love the ocean," Mr Putin said after a surprise visit to Vladivostok on Saturday ... It would take visitors at least a week to reach Vladivostok from Moscow on the Trans-Siberian railway. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Foreign ministers of the three countries have so far met three times over the last two years on the sidelines of some international events twice on the sidelines of the UN general assembly in New York and once in the Russian port city of Vladivostok. The meeting significantly comes less than a month after summit-level talks between India and Russia here after which both Manmohan Singh and Vladimir Putin expressed interest in pushing cooperation under the trilateral forum. (India Times, India -- Community News)
"Based on the facts I have at my disposal, I can say that this was a provocation," Sergei Lavrov told the RIA Novosti news agency on Friday from the town of Vladivostok. Officials in Tblisi confirmed this week that Oleg Khintsagov was arrested in a sting operation last year as he tried to sell "100 grams of 90 per cent-enriched uranium". (Aljazeera.net)
The CPJ's trip itself came as a television anchor was killed in the Pacific city of Vladivostok over the weekend, and as a female newspaper reporter was badly beaten Monday, also in the eastern Russian city. The delegation, according to CPJ board chairman and Wall Street Journal managing editor Paul Steiger, had made 'a step forward' in speaking for the first time with authorities. (Monsters and Critics.com)
Colleagues say murder in eastern city of Vladivostok unlikely tied to work ... MOSCOW - A television journalist was beaten to death in Vladivostok, police in the Russian Pacific coast city said Monday ... Borovko anchored a morning program on entertainment and cultural events at Guberniya, a major regional channel in the neighboring Khabarovsk Territory, but was in Vladivostok for exams at a university where he studied at the media department, said Inna Perekhozheva, editor of morning programs... (MSNBC -- International)
MOSCOW A television journalist was beaten to death in Vladivostok, police in the Russian Pacific coast city said Monday ... Mr. Borovko anchored a morning program on entertainment and cultural events at Guberniya, a major regional channel in the neighboring Khabarovsk Territory, but was in Vladivostok for exams at a university where he studied at the media department, said Inna Perekhozheva, editor of morning programs at the channel. (Globe and Mail -- International)
Vladivostok Air offers direct flights between Seoul and Irkutsk. Alternatively, make your way to Beijing or Ulan Bator and take the Trans-Siberian railway. (Korea Herald, Korea)
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