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...after he rudely rebuffed Japan's offer to send doctors to help in the Sakhalin Island earthquake, Boris Yeltsin issued an apologetic press release. The Russian President said today that he "regretted his emotional statement," and said the Russians would not reject any offer of aid. However, he still maintained that Russia could cope with the disaster...
Enraged survivors of the devastating earthquake in Neftegorsky confronted town officials today. "I only have two questions," said one woman. "Why weren't we warned? Why is my husband dead?" Townspeople rejected an offer by the state to resettle them in other areas of Sakhalin Island. Frustrated by a dying local economy, many residents had hoped to be moved to the mainland. New tremors are also being felt in Russia's courts. Prosecutors are now opening a criminal investigation of the builders of the town's apartment buildings, saying shoddy construction contributed greatly to the loss of life...
Residents of the remote Far East Russian island of Sakhalin desperately sought to rescue their relatives and friends as Russian troops scrambled to dig out thousands of victims of one of the most catastrophic earthquakes in Russian history. The devastating temblor, measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale, hit at 1am on Sunday, leveling the town of Neftegorsk and burying most of the 3,500 residents in the wreckage of brick and concrete buildings. In Neftegorsk, cries of pain were heard amid the rubble, the whole area clouded by thick smoke from fires sparked by the quake. At least...
...Soviet communism, the possibilities for diplomatic rapprochement might seem to be good, but that is misleading. Even though Moscow and Tokyo talk of settling the dispute in terms of "legitimacy and justice," control of the Kuriles turns more on issues of realpolitik. Says Mikhail Vysokov, director of the Sakhalin Center of Modern History: "Those with power have rights. When Russia had more power, it had more rights. Now Japan has more power...
...believe three basic propositions," said Keppel. "One, that the airliner was the companion of several military aircraft, Two, that several of these [aircraft] were down off Sakhalin. Three,that the Korean aircraft escaped the Soviets andwas shot down for reasons unclear...