Medvedev vows to end Russian protectionism Nov 15, 2009
He also underlined Russia's ambition to become a "strong financial centre" in the coming years, as it gears up to host the 2012 APEC summit in the Far East city of Vladivostok. But Russia, whose economy is forecast by the World Bank to contract 8. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Time up for Russias 11 time zones? Nov 13, 2009
Theres now a seven-hour difference between Moscow and Vladivostok ... President Dmitry Medvedev suggested Thursday that Russia reduce the number of time zones in the name of economic efficiency, which could have residents in the far eastern city of Vladivostok eating their breakfast blini at the same time their Chinese neighbors just a few miles away are slurping their noodles at lunch ... Medvedev didn't say how extensive any cut would be, but Vladivostok Economics University rector Gennady... (MSNBC -- International)
Russia launches program to save tigers worldwide Nov 12, 2009
Russia hopes to hold a "tiger summit" in the Far East city of Vladivostok in September to coordinate multinational efforts to protect the Amur tiger, its habitats and increasingly scarce food sources, representatives of Russia's Natural Resources Ministry, the World Bank and the World Wildlife Fund said Wednesday. "We decided that this time we should do something serious in order to preserve tigers on our planet," said Igor Chestin, director of the Russian branch of the World Wildlife Fund. (MSNBC -- Environment)
romantic exoticism Nov 4, 2009
It traveled quickly to the Western Hemisphere, and in its musical form has triumphed around the globe, so that from London to Boston to Mexico City to Tokyo to Vladivostok to Oslo, the most popular orchestral music in the world is that of the romantic era. After almost a century of being attacked by the academic and professional world of Western formal concert music, the style has reasserted itself as neoromanticism in the concert halls. (Harper's Magazine)
APEC a platform for countries, regions with different interests: Russian scholar Nov 3, 2009
The Russian expert noted that currently Russia was speeding up its preparations for the 2012 APEC Vladivostok summit, as it "intends to play its own role in the organization.". China and Russia inked a series of economic and trade agreements when Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin paid a visit to Beijing last month. (Xinhuanet, China)
The future of Russia-China relations is looking bright following Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's three-day visit to China, which included the 14th Chinese-Russian prime ministers' meeting with Chinese premier.• Putin's first official visit to Beijing enthuses Russian media Oct 16, 2009
The RIA Novosti welcomed the MOU on high-speed trains in Russia's Far East, a line from Vladivostok to Khabarovsk which could use China's high-speed train technology. It said China boasted technology comparable to that of Europe, technology which could enable a train to run 350 km per hour. (Xinhuanet, China)
Then Marx came tumbling down ... Sep 30, 2009
During protests last year in Vladivostok against tariffs introduced by Moscow on imported Japanese cars, some demonstrators carried Japanese fags ... During the mentioned protests in Vladivostok, Moscow faced a peculiar solidarity of residents, local elite and the police - who refused to beat up protesters. (Asia Times Online)
Global Warming Reopens the Northeast Passage Sep 19, 2009
Its boats languished for almost a month in Vladivostok, in the country's far east, waiting for two Russian ministries as well as the secret service to sign off on the voyage. (Beluga's written application to sail was originally filed in April. (Time.com)
Crunch time for Russia Mars probe Sep 15, 2009
Currently Russia's only operational deep space antenna capable of sending flight control commands to Phobos-Grunt is in Ussuriyisk near Vladivostok. Any serious problems there would doom the mission. (BBC News -- Science)
The battle of 70 summers: World War II began Sept. 1, 1939; its tensions plague us still Sep 1, 2009
These flared again this summer when the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, a group of 56 states that stretch from Vancouver to Vladivostok, voted to condemn both Stalinism and fascism for beginning the conflict and to observe a day of remembrance for victims of both these failed and faded ideologies every Aug. 23, the date when, 70 years ago, Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty that united the two nations and divided Eastern Europe. Moscow's chief... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Chinese students return after post-quake rehabilitation Aug 13, 2009
Chinese children wave goodbye at the "Ocean" All-Russia Children's care center in Vladivostok, Russia, on Aug. 11, 2009 ... The teenagers, 340 from Sichuan Province, 110 from Gansu Province and 100 from Shaanxi Province, were invited by the Russian government to recuperate at the "Ocean" All-Russia Children's Care Center in Vladivostok, Far East, since July 23 ... Chinese children hug their Russian counsellors at the "Ocean" All-Russia Children's care center in Vladivostok, Russia, on Aug. 11,... (Xinhuanet, China)
* China and Russia: friends for now Aug 4, 2009
On Friday, Putin traveled to Khabarovsk to unveil a new pipeline stretching from the Russian island of Sakhalin to Khabarovsk and the far eastern port of Vladivostok ... In Khabarovsk, the last stop on the Trans-Siberian Railway before Vladivostok, nobody is talking about secessionism ... There have been grassroots protests in Khabarovsk and in Vladivostok after Moscow raised duties on second-hand Japanese cars late last year, killing off a major regional business. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Shanghai's White Russsian Community Jul 28, 2009
The first great exodus was in 1922, when Admiral Oskar Victorovitch Stark took what remained of Czarist funds in Vladivostok and used them to equip a rag-tag evacuation fleet. Thirty or forty vessels were recruited, many of them aging vessels that were barely seaworthy. (Suite101.com)
Russia tests nuclear submarine after accident - RIA Jul 27, 2009
Russian seamen line up on an unidentified submarine believed to be an Akula-class submarine during a military parade training in Vladivostok in this July 25, 2008 file photo. (REUTERS/Yuri Maltsev/Files). (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
Putin wades into tungsten mire Jul 15, 2009
According to reports in a Vladivostok newspaper, the nominal owner was a man named Alexander Martynov, whom the newspaper tracked down to a street address in Moscow, but couldn't find him there. Attempts by the regional authorities to find him in person also proved in vain. (Asia Times Online)
Banyan: Blind-sided in Asia Jul 10, 2009
Trade and investment in eastern Siberia and the Russian Far East fall far short of their potential, and the grim dilapidation of cities like Vladivostok and Khabarovsk is a shock to anyone from Asia s fast-moving metropolises ... Elsewhere, Russia takes pride in hosting the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit in 2012, in Vladivostok ... But its own lack of hard power in the region is reinforced by the view over Vladivostok s once-famous Golden Horn. (The Economist)
Russia:A new sick man Jun 5, 2009
When Mr Putin raised import tariffs for what has become the staple of the local economy, the people of Vladivostok took to the streets ... A few protests have occurred, some even featuring anti-Putin slogans; but with the exception of Vladivostok, they have been small ... Unless the authorities push people too far, as they did in Vladivostok, mass protests seem unlikely. (The Economist)
North Korea declares it conducted nuclear test May 27, 2009
In Vladivostok, a city of 500,000 people about 85 miles (140 kilometers) from the Russian-North Korean border, translator Alexei Sergeyev said he wasn t concerned about the test and doesn t fear North Korea. Their nuclear program does not have military aims their only aim is to frighten the U.S. and receive more humanitarian aid as a result, said Sergeyev. (Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald, NC)
The Realist Kennan May 25, 2009
After Russia left the war in March 1918, the Allies feared that war supplies in Archangel and Vladivostok, supplies they had provided, might fall into German hands ... Lenin s government had granted the legion, comprised of Russian-born Czechs and Slovaks and former prisoners of war, permission to move across Siberia to Vladivostok, whence Allied ships were to transport it around the world to France ... Rather than have the former shoot their way through to Vladivostok, the British and French... (The American Conservative)
These times, they should be changing May 24, 2009
What would please the good folk of Moscow would probably be more than a little annoying to the citizenry of Vladivostok. No matter what an American sports league or network does, flak is sure to follow. (Boston Globe)
Stalemate as EU and Russia fail to settle differences May 23, 2009
The Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, hosted the summit in the far eastern city of Khabarovsk, close to Vladivostok and Russia's Pacific coast. The EU leaders included the European Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
How the West Won: Norway Takes the Crown at Eurovision May 19, 2009
That his folksy ditty channeled the sounds of Vladivostok more than Oslo probably didn't hurt. (). (Time.com)
The Accidental Army Documentary Apr 30, 2009
The Allies convinced the Bolsheviks to withdraw the Czech Legion from their crumbling front and ship them via train 6,000 miles across Russia to Vladivostok where they would be transported to the western front and continue the war there ... The documentary also further states that the American units that landed in Vladivostok in 1918 were National Guard when in fact the first US troops in town were the 31st Infantry Regiment of regulars from the Philippines. (Suite101.com)
Need to know: Ryanair savings ...... Apr 16, 2009
6 per cent stake in Khorol Zerno, which operates a 10,000- hectare farm growing maize and soya beans near Vladivostok. ArcelorMittal: The world s biggest steel group, based in Luxembourg, said that it may delay its planned $20 billion to $25 billion investment in India by at least two years. (New York Post -- Business)
Rally Against Military Reform Held in Russia Apr 12, 2009
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia -- About 300 protesters rallied Saturday in Russia's main far eastern port to protest the Kremlin's plan to radically streamline the nation's military ... The rally in Vladivostok was organized by the regional Union of Officers, which mostly consists of military retirees ... The rally was being held in Vladivostok, the main base of Russia's Pacific Fleet. (Newsmax)
Globocop versus the TermiNATO Apr 4, 2009
Moscow's official view is of a security order stretching "from Vancouver to Vladivostok". Something even more ambitious than NATO: "Perhaps NATO could develop into PATO, a Pacific-Atlantic alliance. We just cannot allow troublemakers to deter us.". (Asia Times Online)
Seeing the light when darkness falls Mar 30, 2009
St Petersburg, Vladivostok and 10 other smaller cities did the same. The mayors of towns up and down the Mediterranean and along the Adriatic also joined their citizens as town halls, piazzas and streets went dark. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Body of Chinese sailor on sunk cargo ship discovered off Japan Mar 29, 2009
The body of the Chinese motor mechanic was found off the village of Nashiro, Honshu Island, the Itar-Tass news agency reported, citing sources of the Vladivostok rescue center. A Sierra Leone-flagged vessel named New Star sank off Russia's far-east port of Vladivostok on Feb. 15 after coming under fire from Russian coast guard vessels. (Xinhuanet, China)
* Russia advises N Korea against launch Mar 28, 2009
Russia shares a small border with North Korea in the Far East and its main Pacific port of Vladivostok lies only 150km from the North Korean border. Japan ordered its military yesterday to prepare to intercept any dangerous debris that might fall on its territory if the missile launch goes wrong. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Russia says North Korea should not launch rocket Mar 27, 2009
Russia shares a small border with North Korea in the Far East and its main Pacific port of Vladivostok lies only 150 km from the North Korean border. Japan ordered its military on Friday to prepare to intercept any dangerous debris that might fall on its territory if the missile launch goes wrong. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
China unruffled over North Korean launch Mar 24, 2009
North Korea has announced that it will close two aviation routes in the five-day period the launch is expected in early April, with links from the North to the Russian port city of Vladivostok and to Japan to be closed for five hours from 11 am daily, according to statement from the South's Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs. Two female Western journalists - Euna Lee, a Korean-American, and Laura Ling, a Chinese-American - seized by North Korean troops at the Chinese border last... (Asia Times Online)
Russia sends out a call around the world: Come home Mar 22, 2009
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Vasily Reutov had never set foot in Russia until a few months ago, but the moment he did, he knew he had finally made it home ... After several weeks roaming the Vladivostok region, Reutov said he was convinced. (Boston Globe)
A sturdier Russia beckons its children home Mar 22, 2009
After several weeks roaming the Vladivostok region, Reutov said he was convinced. He and his brother-in-law, Aleksei Kilin, 26, have been looking for a relatively isolated area where they can set up a farm. (International Herald Tribune)
A rising China waltzes gingerly with the Russian bear Mar 22, 2009
In mid-February, a Russian warship fired at least 500 rounds into a Chinese cargo ship off Vladivostok, sinking the Chinese freighter and leaving seven crew members missing, according to newspaper reports in both countries. Beijing and Moscow later silenced the press and provided no further explanation. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Signs of Tension Between Putin and Medvedev? Mar 20, 2009
Speaking with regional lawmakers on Friday, Medvedev said open discussion of anticrisis measures was "permissible and even necessary." On Sunday, protesters held a sanctioned, peaceful march in Vladivostok the same city where they had been beaten and arrested at a similar demonstration months earlier. Also on Sunday, Medvedev said unemployment actually stood at 6 million instead of the official figure of 2 million during a now weekly television appearance addressing the crisis. (Time.com)
China to launch drill with Russia Mar 17, 2009
The first such drill was held in Vladivostok in Russia and East China's Shandong in August 2005. In 2007, the two countries joined a multinational anti-terror drill that also brought together Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. (Xinhuanet, China)
How economies are faring Mar 14, 2009
Social unrest has already been broken out in Vladivostok, while the financial crisis has cut the combined fortune of the 10 richest Russians by 66% to $75. 9bn, according to business magazine Finans. (BBC News -- Europe)
Gazprom Considers Investing in Japanese Power Utilities, CFO Kruglov Says Mar 13, 2009
Gazproms view is that natural gas from Sakhalin will be transported by a proposed pipeline from the island to the Pacific port city of Vladivostok, Kruglov said. Exxon owns 30 percent of the Sakhalin-1 project as does Japans Sakhalin Oil and Gas Development Co., or Sodeco. (Bloomberg -- Japan)
Kremlin faces vote test; opposition cries foul Mar 1, 2009
There is no voting in Moscow or St Petersburg or in Vladivostok in the Far East which recently saw protests over tariffs on imported Japanese cars that hit the local economy. (Additional reporting by Aidar Buribayev). (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
* Russian passport offensive has former Soviet states worried Feb 27, 2009
Residents of Narva, a predominantly ethnic Russian city in northeastern Estonia, said that if they hold a Russian passport and an Estonian noncitizens passport, they can travel from Lisbon, Portugal, to Vladivostok without a visa. I finally made up my mind X Im going to get Russian citizenship, said Vitaly Shkola, 47, an Estonian noncitizen. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
A planet at the brink? Feb 26, 2009
Athens (Greece), Longnan (China), Port-au-Prince (Haiti), Riga (Latvia), Santa Cruz (Bolivia), Sofia (Bulgaria), Vilnius (Lithuania), and Vladivostok (Russia) would be a start ... Instituted by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to protect an endangered domestic auto industry (whose sales were expected to shrink by up to 50% in 2009), the tariffs were a blow to merchants in the Far Eastern port of Vladivostok who benefited from a nationwide commerce in used Japanese vehicles. (Asia Times Online)
Russia: Stalled factories and fireside chats Feb 25, 2009
In the far-eastern port of Vladivostok, thousands have taken to the streets to protest against higher import tariffs on second-hand Japanese cars, the sale of which is the backbone of the local economy. In a sign of the Kremlin s nervousness, riot police from Moscow have been sent to deal with the trouble. (The Economist)
Survived Chinese sailors permitted to leave Russia Feb 24, 2009
The three sailors were rescued after the Chinese cargo ship "New Star," with 16 crew members aboard, sank on Feb. 15 off the waters near Russia's far-eastern port of Vladivostok. Half of the crew members -- one Indonesian and seven Chinese --went missing after boarding a live raft. (Xinhuanet, China)
Chinese protest sinking of ship by Russians Feb 21, 2009
The warship fired 500 rounds at the vessel, sinking it in stormy Russian waters near the eastern port city of Vladivostok. Seven sailors are still missing, according to Xinhua, China's state news agency. (International Herald Tribune)
China: Russia's attitude on ship sinking unacceptable Feb 21, 2009
A Sierra Leone-flagged vessel named "New Star" sank off the waters near Russia's far-eastern port of Vladivostok on Sunday ... The Sierra Leone-flagged vessel named "New Star" sank off the waters near Russia's far-eastern port of Vladivostok on Sunday ... A Chinese cargo ship on Sunday sank off the waters near Russia's far-eastern port of Vladivostok. (Xinhuanet, China)
China Thursday again lodged urgent representations to the Russian Minister Counsellor to China in regards to the sinking of a Chinese cargo ship in Russian waters.• China: Russia's investigation into sea accident still going on Feb 20, 2009
A Chinese cargo ship on Sunday sank off the waters near Russia's far-eastern port of Vladivostok ... Chinese consulate officials in Khabarovsk and Vladivostok visited the rescued sailors and offered assistance to handle the aftermath of the accident, Jiang said in response to a question. (Xinhuanet, China)
China lodges urgent representation again to Russia on cargo ship sinking Feb 20, 2009
The Sierra Leone-flagged vessel named "New Star" sank off the waters near Russia's far-eastern port of Vladivostok on Sunday ... A Chinese cargo ship on Sunday sank off the waters near Russia's far-eastern port of Vladivostok ... MOSCOW, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- The three Chinese sailors rescued from a cargo ship that sank Sunday in the Sea of Japan near Russia's far-eastern port of Vladivostok are in good health, but seven other crew members remain missing, an official with the Chinese Consulate in... (Xinhuanet, China)
Newsweek: Putin faces unrest in Russia's rust belt Feb 20, 2009
Within the past two weeks, thousands have taken to the streets in Moscow, Vladivostok, Novosibirsk, Volgograd and Ulan-Ude. In Vladivostok they stood, shouting anti-Putin slogans, in temperatures of close to zero Fahrenheit ... One expands the definition of high treason and espionage to include advisory "and other" assistance to foreign and international organizations; another makes "participating in mass disorders" such as the one in Vladivostok a "crime against the state." More sinister still,... (MSNBC -- International)
* World News Quick Take Feb 20, 2009
The investigation into the shooting on the foreign ship is being led by military prosecutors, Alexander Selentsov, an official from prosecutors in the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok, told the Interfax news agency. The captain of the New Star was repeatedly asked to stop through radio communication, flares, a flag and warning shots. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Frozen assets Feb 18, 2009
With electricity prices rising by 21% and heating 14%, and people being laid off or being told to take unpaid leave, there is concern that the social unrest experienced in Vladivostok could spread to Moscow. One commentator noted that although the latest budget will result in a deficit this year, there has not been any cut in the cost of funding the police or interior troops. (BBC News -- Europe)
Tariff protests in eastern port rattle Kremlin Feb 16, 2009
Near a statue of Lenin, Russians in Vladivostok last month protested the imposition of higher import duties on used cars ... The car dealers' demonstrations in Vladivostok in the past two months have drawn thousands of people, more than events sponsored anywhere in Russia by liberal opponents of Vladimir V. Putin ... The government grew so alarmed in late December that it took the extraordinary step of sending special riot police officers to Vladivostok from Moscow, nine hours away by plane, to... (International Herald Tribune)
Eight die as ship sinks off Russia Feb 15, 2009
Eight sailors were killed when their vessel sank during a violent storm near the far-eastern Russian port of Vladivostok, the regional emergency rescue centre said ... "During the next attempt to rescue people, six of them were injured and then drowned. Earlier, two members of the crew were washed off their life-raft by a wave," a captain at the Vladivostok Emergency Rescue Centre told AFP.. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Chinese, Indonesian sailors drown in Sea of Japan Feb 15, 2009
But the Vladivostok Rescue Coordinating Center said attempts Sunday to rescue the sailors on the other raft failed because of rough seas, and all eight were washed overboard. The ship had sailed from Nakhodka under the flag of Sierra Leone. (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
Russia's leaders are beggaring the bear Feb 13, 2009
When a relatively small group of protesters demonstrated in Vladivostok following an unpopular increase in tariffs on imported cars, the Kremlin sent riot police more than 9,000 kilometres across the country to confront them. The Putin-controlled state Duma issued a report from its analytical department that claimed the demonstrations were part of a plot by foreign powers to detach the Far East from Russia. (Globe and Mail -- International)
Kremlin ally issues a sobering outlook Feb 11, 2009
So far, the economic discontent has translated into political action in the far eastern city of Vladivostok, where second-hand car dealers protested the imposition of new import duties on Japanese used cars. Russia's economic woes, meanwhile, are stacking up. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Protests spread in Europe Feb 7, 2009
Several thousand people held rallies in Moscow and Vladivostok in Russia's Far East on 31 January, demanding the government resign over the country's growing economic problems - the biggest anti-government protests in years. Meanwhile, pro-Kremlin supporters held a rally in praise of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's anti-crisis measures. (BBC News -- Europe)
