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Grand vacation // Our weak dollar gives you Mexico for less than $1,000
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The weakness of the U.S. dollar overseas and last fall's stock
market fiasco have knocked the sand out of many a vacation plan this
year. But don't head for the tanning parlor yet. Head for Mexico,
where the falling peso allows you to craft virtually any weeklong
vacation you please for less than $1,000 a person, including airfare.
Top-drawer Mexican hotels charge about $100 a night for two. A
couple of lobsters with wine cost $25 or so along the coast. And
round-trip airfare runs $300 to $500, depending on where you start.
Compare that to a week's stay with ocean view at the Sonesta ...
 "The Moscow Times (Russia)")
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Finns Gassed and Robbed in Vyborg, THE MOSCOW TIMES
Newspaper article from: The Moscow Times (Russia)
; ...thinking twice about visiting the border town Vyborg after a surge in brazen muggings in the...authorities and cut back or suspended trips to Vyborg, a magnet for tens of thousands of tourists...usually organizes at least one bus trip to Vyborg every week, is sending only two buses...
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Crime Wave Driving Finns Out of Vyborg, THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
Newspaper article from: The St. Petersburg Times (Russia)
; ...twice about visiting the border town of Vyborg after a surge in brazen muggings over...authorities and cut back or suspended trips to Vyborg. I have been the witness of muggings...usually organizes at least one bus trip to Vyborg every week, is sending only to two buses...
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Vyborg Aims To Get Finns Coming Back, THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
Newspaper article from: The St. Petersburg Times (Russia)
; ...Petersburg, authorities in the Russian town of Vyborg, 20 kilometers from the Finnish border...Vyacheslav Beck, the deputy head of the Vyborg District Administration. Feb. 15 is...problem with the town's administration in Vyborg on Monday. Juha Virpanen, a Finnish...
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1000 words: Liisa Roberts; Talks about what's the time in Vyborg?
Magazine article from: Artforum International
; ...American artist's What's the Time in Vyborg?, initiated in 2000, takes as its starting...of a newly independent Finnish state (Vyborg, then Finland's second largest city...more acute public awareness not only of Vyborg's history but of its post-Communist...
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Warm Welcomes in Vyborg and Kronstadt Series: BALTIC BREEZES
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...Polaris was set to disembark passengers in Vyborg. And officials in this formerly Finnish...ended last summer, while tourists who saw Vyborg generally got no more than a bus-window...handily positioned to develop tourism - Vyborg as an easy day trip from Helsinki, and...
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Vyborg Mayor Faces Pressure From Locals, THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
Newspaper article from: The St. Petersburg Times (Russia)
; ...mayor of the Leningrad Oblast town of Vyborg, in what many locals see as a conflict...Zhzhonov, both former deputies of the Vyborg City Council. The aim of the drive is to force a referendum to remove Vyborg Mayor Geor gy Poryadin. The ostensible...
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Vyborg Shipyard to build port in Turkmenistan.
Newspaper article from: Energy News
; Vyborg Shipyard to build port in Turkmenistan VYBORG. Dec 16 (Interfax-Northwest) - Vyborg Shipyard in Leningrad region plans to start building the Ekerem Port on the Caspian Sea in Turkmenistan in the summer of 2004, Sergei Zavyalov, the...
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Vyborg Shipbuilding Plant launches tanker for Karmsund Maritime.
Newspaper article from: Russia & CIS Business and Financial Newswire
; Vyborg Shipbuilding Plant launches tanker for Karmsund...ST. PETERSBURG. Nov 22 (Interfax) - Vyborg Shipbuilding Plant (VSZ) in Leningrad...possibly building several more frameworks in Vyborg. AKO BARSS is the biggest shareholder in...
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Vyborg Shipyard to provide first drilling rig for Shtokman field in Oct 2010.
Newspaper article from: Russia & CIS Business and Financial Newswire
; Vyborg Shipyard to provide first drilling rig for...PETERSBURG. July 4. (Interfax) - OJSC Vyborg Shipyard plans to deliver its first floating...Levchenko said the laying of the first rig at Vyborg Shipyard took place on Friday. He added...
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Vyborg Shipping Company to order 10 new cargo vessels from Damen Shipyards.
Newspaper article from: Russia & CIS Business and Financial Newswire
; Vyborg Shipping Company to order 10 new cargo vessels...PETERSBURG. April 23 (Interfax) - LLP Vyborg Shipping Company (VSK, a subsidiary of...2009 and 2011. Oslo Marine founded OOO Vyborg Shipping Company in 2007. The company specializes...
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