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| | Sakhalin lighthouses |
 | | The first lighthouse on Sakhalin Island was installed at Due Station in 1860. | | | During the years of the political events of the February and October revolutions and the five-year Japanese occupation of Northern Sakhalin, the construction of lighthouses was almost halted entirely. | | | During forty years of the governorship of Karafuto in Southern Sakhalin, twenty-five lighthouses and folding marks were installed. |
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http://www.sakhalin.ru/Engl/Region/lighthouses/lighthouses.htm
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| | Russia: SAKHALIN REGIONAL UPDATE |
| | Note: Sakhalin is GMT +10, one day ahead of the U.S. The local Sakhalin Chamber of Commerce, which has relationships with several chambers in the U.S., is a non-official business association of small and medium-size Sakhalin companies. | | | On Sakhalin, political views toward foreign investors vary; the current administration has been fairly open. | | | In 1998, Rosneft and Rosneft-SMNG were included in the Sakhalin-3 project, a necessary condition for the Russian State Duma to approve a PSA. |
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http://fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/industry/docs/mark0133.htm
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| | Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online |
| | The future of the oil and gas industry is tied to the substantial reserves of the oil and gas fields of the Sakhalin shelf. | | | At present, representatives of more than 110 nationalities live in Sakhalin Region, including Russians (81.7%), Ukrainians (6.5%), Koreans (4.9%), Belarussians (1.6%), Tatars (1.5%), Mordvins, Germans, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Jews, Chuvashes, Japanese, and many more. | | | Many species of marine mammals inhabit the seas around Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. |
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http://www.kommersant.com/tree.asp?rubric=5&node=410&doc_id=-66
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| | NPR : Russian Island's Residents Decry Oil Development |
| | All Things Considered, April 18, 2005 · Native populations on Russia's Sakhalin Island are protesting the practices of multinational oil companies in the region, claiming oil development is intruding on their land and way of life. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4605596
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| | Sakhalin on Encyclopedia.com |
| | With the Kuril Islands it forms the Sakhalin region (1995 est. | | | In an agreement signed in 1951 with the USSR, Japan renounced all claims to Sakhalin. | | | commercial exploitation of huge natural gas reserves in the north of Sakhalin island as exports from 2007. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/S/Sakhalin.asp
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| | THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE: YELTSIN ON SAKHALIN: Chapter Two of RUSSIA REDUX by Gwendolyn Stewart |
| | Even younger Sakhaliners who were not born until well after the war were fiercely determined to avoid any hint of a new colonialism, however politely tricked out in economic form. | | | Russia and Japan had been sparring over Sakhalin much longer, since their respective, competing expansions had brought them to meet in this island and in the smaller but numerous Kuril Islands nearby. | | | A twinkling, diminutive Yul Brynner dapper in dark velvet jackets, Feodorov was a native-born Siberian, but he had been laboring as an economics professor at the Plekhanov Institute in Moscow when some political activists from Sakhalin had recruited him to run for the Russian parliament. |
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http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~gestewar/peopleschoice.html
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| | Incident At Sakhalin |
| | Contrary to "official" reports from the United States and the International Civil Aviation Organization, KAL 007 was not shot down over Sakhalin but was destroyed off Honshu, the main Japanese island, nearly an hour later than the reports claimed and by means and for reasons still not clear. | | | I have found this particular incident quite fascinating since 1994 and have done a great deal of reading up on it from various sources, trying to sift through the conspiracy people's fantasies to on- site investigation of the crash site and surrounding terrain. | | | As regular readers of this web site know, I'm always recommending books for people to read that I feel are well documented and present the facts in a truthful manner. |
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http://www.devvy.com/kal007_19991120.html
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| | Sakhalin II Project |
| | The authors allowed a two page response from Sakhalin Energy to be published in their report. | | | The report raises issues and concerns which are not new and which Sakhalin Energy has addressed publicly on many occasions previously. | | | News From Sakhalin - Sakhalin II News (click for more) |
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http://www.sakhalinenergy.com
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| | A Forgotten People: The Sakhalin Koreans |
| | "A Forgotten People: The Sakhalin Koreans", a video written, directed and produced by Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, devotes itself to allowing their moving story to be heard. | | | A dark shadow cast by Japan and its responsibility for the continuing predicament of the Koreans of Sakhalin looms over the video. | | | Citation: Epstein, Stephen, Review of Dai-Sil Kim Gibson, A Forgotten People: The Koreans of Sakhalin |
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http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/champion/65/sakhalin.htm
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| | Vladivostok News — Sakhalin |
| | For 50 years, scientists and companies around the world have known about the huge crude oil and natural gas deposits lying just off the coast of Sakhalin Island. | | | Huge deposits of crude oil and natural gas off Sakhalin Island could bring billions to foreign investors — and the Russians who work with them. | | | Send an e-mail, including a resume and some clips of your writing, to russellworking@hotmail.com. |
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http://vlad.tribnet.com/1998/iss162/sakh.html
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| | The Sakhalin Times |
| | The competition may become more intense in coming years as Japan’s demand is unlikely to grow before the end of this decade, Shigeru Muraki, Tokyo Gas’ general manager of gas resources said in an interview last year according to Bloomberg. | | | Sakhalin customs not ready for oil and gas projects | | | Almost all cases were brought to court, Gurshal said. |
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http://www.sakhalintimes.com
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| | Sakhalin II Oil and gas project |
| | Defence of Sakhalin against big oil gains momentum, protestors urge EBRD to reject financing for reckless Sakhalin II project (Press release) | | | Since 1994, Shell has been spearheading an oil and gas extraction project in Sakhalin Island, a far eastern Russian territory. | | | Now Shell, together with Mitsubishi, Mitsui and, recently, also Gazprom, are expanding their environmental and social destruction of Sakhalin Island, with further support potentially from the international financial institutions. |
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http://www.sakhalin.environment.ru/en
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| | sakhalin.html |
| | The proposed offshore oil and gas development around Sakhalin Island is the largest foreign investment in any enterprise in the Russian Far East. | | | Ice movement and high seas make oil development a risky venture. | | | Russian government officials acknowledge that the currents of the Sea of Okhotsk have been poorly studied, and that the data available is insufficient to determine oil spill behavior. |
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http://www.russianconservation.org/sakhalin.html
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| | Asia Times Online - The trusted source for news on Central Asia |
| | However, some Sakhalin oil and gas projects now face a reality check. | | | Rosneft is ready for any government decision, spokesman Dmitry Panteleyev told Asia Times Online. | | | However, he conceded that in the wake of the abandoning of the PSA system, Rosneft is recalculating some of its Sakhalin projects. |
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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/FB04Ag01.html
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| | Sakhalin Oblast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Japan renounced its claims of sovereignty over southern Sakhalin in the Treaty of San Francisco (1952), but did not approve Russian sovereignty over it. | | | Japanese sources claim that 20.000 civilians were killed during the invasion. | | | The Qing Empire also claimed sovereignty over the island and Sakhalin was under formal Chinese rule from the Jin Dynasty onwards. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakhalin_Oblast
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| | Sakhalin Oil Development |
| | FoEJ published the Sakhalin Report in October 1994. | | | Critics of the planned oil projects maintain that Sakhalin's | | | Sakhalin, were not consulted before projects were approved at |
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http://forests.org/archive/europe/sakfoe.htm
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| | DRC Sakhalin Group |
| | Vladivostok News' Web page on Sakhalin, a place where Russian and foreign investors are drooling over vast oil reserves lying offshore. | | | In addition, most of the large Russian oil companies are present, generally as part of organizations created for this project: Sakhalinmorneftegas, Sakhalin Petroleum, Petrosakh JV, FEMCO. | | | DSG has been operating on Sakhalin since 1995 |
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http://drcsakhalin.com/HomePageDSGSakhalin.htm
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| | Sakhalin (island) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Sakhalin (island) |
| | Island in the Russian Far East between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan, separated from the mainland of the Russian Federation by the Tatar Strait and from the northernmost island of Japan, Hokkaido, by La Pérouse Strait. | | | Sakhalin was originally peopled by the Nivkh, Orok, and Ainus (the latter are the main ethnic group on Hokkaido). | | | The Russian writer Anton Chekhov, in his Journey to Sakhalin (1890), described his experience in the following terms: ‘I have seen Ceylon, which is paradise, and Sakhalin, which is hell’. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Sakhalin+(island)
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| | Travel East Russia - Sakhalin Oblast and the Kurile Islands |
| | Because Sakhalin is an island, it has taken longer for people to discover it. | | | Most Ainu were evicted from Sakhalin and resettled in Hokaido. | | | A bear, according to Sakhalin's people belief, was a mountain man, or spirit. |
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http://www.traveleastrussia.com/sakhalin.html
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| | IUCN Business Initiatives |
| | The objective was to establish an independent expert view of the key issues relating to the conservation of WGW population and associated biodiversity in the context of Phase 2 of the Sakhalin – II Project. | | | SEIC is implementing the Sakhalin II Production-Sharing Agreement (PSA), an agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation, the Sakhalin Oblast, and SEIC. | | | Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Limited (SEIC) is a consortium of companies developing oil and gas reserves in the Sea of Okhotsk off the northeast coast of Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East. |
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http://www.iucn.org/themes/business/isrp
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| | WWF - Sakhalin II oil and gas development project |
| | WWF believes any institution that supports this project will be undermining its Environmental Standards. | | | WWF supports these demands through its Russian national office, which implements conservation work in the Sea of Okhotsk region surrounding Sakhalin Island. | | | WWF - Sakhalin II oil and gas development project |
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http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/europe/where/russia/sakhalin
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| | Guardian Unlimited Business Shell gives Gazprom 25% stake in Sakhalin project |
| | Just last month the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development refused to sign off a loan to help fund the $12bn (£6.8bn) oil and gas project until environmental concerns are resolved. | | | Earlier this year there were reports that the installation of the Sakhalin pipeline - the world's most expensive - was interfering with the island's fishing industry. | | | Sakhalin-2, off the east coast of Russia and north of Japan, is estimated by analysts to be one of Shell's most valuable assets as it lies on the doorstep of some of Asia's fastest-growing economies. |
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http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,3604,1523717,00.html
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| | Keppel and Brun on KAL 007 |
| | Even more jarring, it cited a time (quoted in Sakhalin time) a full hour after the Korean airliner had left the area. | | | A page about aircrash wreckage investigation at Amazing Deductions...but only if serious investigation is done. | | | KAL 007 itself was destroyed some 400 miles to the south, off Honshu, for reasons and by means which remain to be established. |
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http://geocities.com/ke007us
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| | SAKHALIN.RU: Сахалин и Курилы |
| | Sakhalin and the Kuriles in the world war II (in Russian only) | | | The Governor said that Sakhalin oil and gas projects were mentioned as an example of fruitful international partnership during nearly all meetings of President Putin. | | | The living standard in Sakhalin region is rising reported Sakhalin Economy Committee. |
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http://www.sakhalin.ru/Engl
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| | Sakhalin, Kurils |
| | Together with the Kuril Islands and the islands of Maneron and Tyuleny the island of Sakhalin forms Sakhalin Region. | | | The islands became the territories of the USSR in 1945, as it was a winner in World War II. | | | In the mountains the stone birch and cedar elfin wood can be found. |
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http://www.russiatourism.ru/eng/object.asp?id=224
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| | Sakhalin Oblast |
| | His predecessor Yevgenii Krasnoyarov, the oblast's governor since 1993, resigned under a cloud of allegations that he misused federal aid intended for the victims of an earthquake in the southern Kuril Islands in 1994. | | | Sakhalin was chiefly used as a prison colony by tsarist Russia: Japan won control over the southern half of the island in 1905, and lost it to the Soviet Union in 1945. | | | Sakhalin Oblast includes Sakhalin Island and the chain of the Kuril Islands. |
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http://www.hf.uib.no/andre/vesti/SAKHALIN.HTM
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| | Secret of Sakhalin Island (Karafuto) |
| | Compiled from the materials courteously offered by "Organization for the return to Japan of South Sakhalin". | | | The form of the island appeared for the first time correctly drawn excepting the north eastern cost where he has never been. | | | The information inside the island such as mountains and the form of rivers has been got from the information coming from aborigines. |
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http://www.karafuto.com
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| | Sakhalin II Project - Sakhalin II Project (Project Overview) |
| | Sakhalin II Project - Sakhalin II Project (Project Overview) | | | Phase 2 of our project is an integrated oil and gas development that will allow year-round oil and gas production. | | | Our project comprises the development of two fields: Piltun-Astokhskoye, primarily an oil field with associated gas, and Lunskoye, predominantly a gas field with associated condensate and an oil rim. |
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http://www.sakhalinenergy.com/project/prj_overview.asp
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| | Sakhalin TWC |
| | The TWC's primary objective is to provide timely tsunami warnings, all clears and information to the people and organizations and also studying of tsunami phenomenon. | | | For the period of 1958 - 1998 in Sakhalin and Kuril Isls there were registered 42 tsunami, 34 of them were generated in near-source zone (Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, Japan and Okhotsk seas) and 8 - in distant regions of the Pacific. | | | Sakhalin TWC prepares for Regional Emergency Commission an information about expected and real conditions after occurred underwater earthquake and an information about intensity and consequences of major quakes occurred on land. |
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http://www.science.sakhalin.ru/Tsunami
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| | BBC NEWS Science/Nature Oil giants set sights on Sakhalin |
| | Unfortunately for Sakhalin Energy, they have an endangered species in the middle of their oil and gas field. | | | But on Sakhalin, there are growing rumblings of discontent. | | | Shell, the British-Dutch oil company, is building one of the world's largest oil and gas developments off Sakhalin island, in the Russian far east. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4244756.stm
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| | Forum 18 Search/Archive |
| | Speaking to Forum 18 on 1 June, Sakhalin's regional religious affairs official, Natalya Oreshkova, said that she was unaware of the Uturup incident, but thought that it was "very possible" that the Pentecostals could have been barred from renting the house of culture there. | | | In January 2004, members of Sakhalin's regional Pentecostal union were forbidden from showing the Jesus Film on the Kurile island of Iturup (some 300km from the Russian border with northern Japan), according to the union's bishop, Petr Yarmolyuk. | | | The regional decree in question appears to be one on missionary activity issued on 4 July 1996, which then vice-governor Magdalina Sklyarenko cites in a 27 March 1997 letter to Sakhalin's regional cultural department. |
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http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=331
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| | NPR : Oil Boom on Russian Island Leaves Locals Behind |
| | But there's a sense of resentment among local people who feel they've been left behind. | | | Morning Edition, April 18, 2005 · Massive oil investments in Russia's far eastern Sakhalin Island have attracted entrepreneurial veterans of Alaska's oil boom. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4604629
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| | Sakhalin, Russia current local time from WorldTimeServer.com |
| | A comprehensive list of other locations in addition to Sakhalin, Russia is also available which you can view current time by country name or by city name. | | | You can even create a list of your favorite locations where you have business or personal interests. | | | Convert a specific time in Sakhalin, Russia to your local time |
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http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_RU-SAK.aspx
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| | PricewaterhouseCoopers - Sakhalin |
| | Working with companies operating on Sakhalin Island for over 11 years, we launched this site to help share the unique knowledge and experience we have gained over this decade, and to invite you to an open dialogue on how our Sakhalin Team can contribute to the success of your Sakhalin operations. |
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http://www.pwcglobal.com/ru/eng/ins-sol/spec-int/sakhalin
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| | Flickr: Photos tagged with sakhalin |
| | You can assign as many tags as you wish to each photo. | | | Feeds for photos tagged with sakhalin Available as RSS 2.0 and Atom |
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/sakhalin
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