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Russia's Wild East Boom Town; Vladivostok Displays a Rough-and-Ready Style
The Washington Post; 5/26/1994; Lee Hockstader; 1480 words
; ... fog-shrouded hills from Golden Horn Bay, Vladivostok is like a carnival mirror's distorted ... parasites," said Yuri Didenko, director of Vladivostok's huge fishing fleet, one of the world ... concluding: "I'm upbeat. The geography of Vladivostok allows us to hope it will be a center ...
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Crime, Corruption Persist in Vladivostok
NPR Morning Edition; 4/23/2008; STEVE INSKEEP; 711 words
; Crime, Corruption Persist in Vladivostok Host: STEVE INSKEEP Time 10:00 ... crime-ridden nation. The city is Vladivostok, Russia. It's a port in Russia ... from a bay on the Sea of Japan, Vladivostok rises inland over a series of steep ... from its frontier town energy, Vladivostok oozes with something ...
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Vladivostok teems with Russian lore
The Boston Globe; 5/30/1994; Fred Kaplan, Globe Staff; 534 words
; VLADIVOSTOK, Russia -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn chose well when he came here Friday to begin his voyage back from exile. For Vladivostok has always been a passing-through point for Russian ... to the Sakhalin Islands. More likely, he might ponder Vladivostok as the place where, in the 1930s, thousands of ...
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The tycoon of Vladivostok
Chicago Sun-Times; 10/30/1988; Gerald Nadler; 680 words
; VLADIVOSTOK, U.S.S.R. Sergei Grashkin is a 29-year-old Soviet citizen ... Ford Galaxie 500 and he shares a City Hall office with Vladivostok's deputy mayor. "We learn from each other," Grashkin ... fills 150 orders a day for made-to-order clothes sewn by Vladivostok women at home. Grashkin, recalling he was ...
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Russia's best-kept bargain. (Vladivostok stock exchange)
The Economist (US); 9/4/1993; 617 words
; VLADIVOSTOK, the home of the Russian Pacific Fleet, used to be one ... the city is open, the fleet is rotting at anchor and Vladivostok has a new secret--one of the most dynamic stock exchanges ... were issued to every Russian at the end of 1992. The Vladivostok exchange, founded in April 1992, is different. It ...
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Taming Russia's Wild East: Vladivostok is now very much open for business, and as Kevin Cudby found, there are opportunities aplenty for serious entrepreneurs.(new markets)
NZ Business; 10/1/2005; Cudby, Kevin; 1648 words
; ... skirts, trousers and shoes. This is Vladivostok, the largest city in Russia's sparsely-populat ... until the collapse of the Soviet Union, Vladivostok was closed--even Russians needed a special ... entrepreneurs are heavily involved in Vladivostok's exuberant renaissance. They come for ...
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Ominous change in the Far East With Communist Party fallen, fear, crime rule Vladivostok
The Boston Globe; 11/9/1993; Charles A. Radin, Globe Staff; 1288 words
; VLADIVOSTOK, Russia -- After more than 50 years as a closed ... headquarters of the Soviet Union's Pacific fleet, Vladivostok is returning to its earlier character as a wide ... the region's growing numbers of Chinese traders. Vladivostok, principal city of the strategic, resource-rich ... requires them to pay ...
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Profile: Political and economic difficulties in Russia's far eastern port city of Vladivostok
Morning Edition (NPR); 2/19/1999; BOB EDWARDS; 722 words
; ... difficulties in Russia's far eastern port city of Vladivostok Host: BOB EDWARDS Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon ... are Primorye's governor and the mayor of Vladivostok, the region's main city. President Boris ... was supposed to become the next Hong Kong. Vladivostok, on the Sea of Japan, is perfectly ...
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The Greater Vladivostok Project: transnational linkages in regional economic planning.
Pacific Affairs; 12/22/1994; Christoffersen, Gaye; 8267 words
; ... Ivan Abroskin, announced that Vladivostok might exercise stricter visa control ... thought justified the expansion of Vladivostok's security forces. (14) An effect ... According to alarmist Russian news reports, every month two-thousand ... ethnically cleansed the city of Vladivostok and the territory ...
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RUSSIAN CALLING: ST. JOE PRIEST PASTORS IN VLADIVOSTOK
Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current); 4/20/2007; CAROL WERSICH, Courier & Press staff writer 464-7452 or wersichc@courierpress.com; 658 words
; It's not easy being a priest today in Vladivostok, Russia, where, not so many years ago ... Township - has been based in the city of Vladivostok, which is near the southern border with ... historic Cathedral of the Diocese of Vladivostok, whose construction had not been completed ...
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