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Ukrainian seamen on strike in Russian Far East join Russian trade union.
VLADIVOSTOK, January 27 (Itar-Tass) - Ukrainian Crew of the motor ship Sea Star, which is on strike in the Russian Far Eastern commercial port of Nakhodka, has joined the Russian Navigators Trade Union /RPSM/ and has asked the union leaders to acts as the defenders of its interests.
The Sea Star cruises under the flag of the Comoros.
The ship's owner, the Transforward company from Odessa has a
four-months-long wage debt to the crew.
The seamen have ordered proxy solicitation to lawyer Vassily Savelyev
of the Far Eastern region branch of the navigators' trade union, the
leader of the organization, Nikolai Sukhanov said.
The Sea Star has a thirteen-strong crew, and all of its members are
residents of the Odessa and the nearby cities of Kherson and Ismail.
The striking engine crew says the ship will not leave the wharf until
all the crewmembers get the back wage of around $ 50,000.
The Sea Star is loaded with almost 5,000 tons of coal and is expected
to leave for China. At the moment, the Ukrainians' strike is blocking
normal operations of the coal wharf.
The seamen also demand that the owner company organize their
repatriation home free of charge.
The ship was built in China in 2009 but a crewmember told Itar-Tass it
is in an unsatisfactory technical condition and the seamen have to engage
in endless repairs.
A crack has appeared in the ship's deck and it is too dangerous now to
take it into high seas.
Nikolai Sukhanov said the information about the strike has been
relayed to the Ukrainian trade union of sea navigators and a written
demand to pay off the wage debt has been sent to the Transforward company.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pyotr Poroshenko offered a quick reaction
to the situation in Nakhodka - he issued an instruction to Ukraine's
Consul General in Vladivostok "to contact the Ukrainians aboard the Sea
Star and to help them return home if need be," Sukhanov said.
The ship's engine crew said however the strike is indefinite.
.Holocaust Remembrance events to be held in former ghetto in Russia.
MOSCOW, January 27 (Itar-Tass) - Russia and the rest of the world
observes the Holocaust Memorial Day, which is marked annually January 27.
Exactly on this day 65 years ago, Soviet troops liberated the
Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp on the territory of Poland that witnessed
the ordeal and annihilation of about a million Jews.
For the first time ever, a commemorative event will be held Wednesday
at the site of the former Nazi ghetto in Kaluga, some 180 kilometers to
the southwest of Moscow.
It happened to be the first Nazi camp for Jewish convicts on the
territory of Europe to be liberated right at the peak of the World War II
combat operations.
The remembrance action has been organized by the Russian Jewish
Congress /RJC/ that has invited statesmen, public personalities and
clerics to attend it.
"It's important to hold remembrance actions right at the sites where
historic events took place," RJC President Yuri Kanner said.
The Nazis set up the Kaluga ghetto November 8, 1941 and the Red Army
liberated it a month and a half later.
In Moscow, remembrance candles will be lit in the Jewish Community
Center. The chief rabbi of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia,
Berl Lazar, as well as diplomats from foreign agencies and representatives
of international organizations having missions in Moscow are expected to
attend.
Later in the day, a requiem party will be held at the Central Club of
Writers. It will be led by Alla Gerber, a member of Russia's Public
Chamber and President of the Holocaust Russian Fund.
Former prisoners of Auschwitz and veterans who liberated it have been
invited to speak at the party and to share their recollections.
The organizers will award prizes to the teachers, school and college
students who won the annual competition titled 'Lessons of the Holocaust:
a Pathway to Tolerance'.
Remembrance prayers will be held in all of Moscow's five synagogues.
The RJC says about a thousand former Jewish convicts of ghettos and
concentration camps live in Moscow today.
All in all, the Nazis killed about 3 million Jews who used to reside
on the territory of the former USSR. This was about a half of the country'
s Jewish population at the time.
.North Korea, South Korea exchange fire near sea border - agency.
SEOUL, January 27 (Itar-Tass) - Units of the North Korean and South
Korean Armed Forces exchanged fire "off waters near inter-Korean sea
border Wednesday morning," the Yonhap news agency said.
Seoul officials confirmed the incident, it indicated.
The exchange of fire occurred after North Korea declared a disputed
area of the Yellow Sea a no-sail zone.
High rank military officials told Yonhap the North Koreans fired
several artillery shells "into the Northern part of the Northern Limit
Line /NLL/" at around 09:05 local time.
No casualties or injuries have been reported, as both sides fired into
the air, Yonhap quoted North Korean government as saying.
"We are on high military alert," Park Sung-woo, a spokesman for the
South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff told reporters.
-0-kle
The Sea Star cruises under the flag of the Comoros.
The ship's owner, the Transforward company from Odessa has a
four-months-long wage debt to the crew.
The seamen have ordered proxy solicitation to lawyer Vassily Savelyev
of the Far Eastern region branch of the navigators' trade union, the
leader of the organization, Nikolai Sukhanov said.
The Sea Star has a thirteen-strong crew, and all of its members are
residents of the Odessa and the nearby cities of Kherson and Ismail.
The striking engine crew says the ship will not leave the wharf until
all the crewmembers get the back wage of around $ 50,000.
The Sea Star is loaded with almost 5,000 tons of coal and is expected
to leave for China. At the moment, the Ukrainians' strike is blocking
normal operations of the coal wharf.
The seamen also demand that the owner company organize their
repatriation home free of charge.
The ship was built in China in 2009 but a crewmember told Itar-Tass it
is in an unsatisfactory technical condition and the seamen have to engage
in endless repairs.
A crack has appeared in the ship's deck and it is too dangerous now to
take it into high seas.
Nikolai Sukhanov said the information about the strike has been
relayed to the Ukrainian trade union of sea navigators and a written
demand to pay off the wage debt has been sent to the Transforward company.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pyotr Poroshenko offered a quick reaction
to the situation in Nakhodka - he issued an instruction to Ukraine's
Consul General in Vladivostok "to contact the Ukrainians aboard the Sea
Star and to help them return home if need be," Sukhanov said.
The ship's engine crew said however the strike is indefinite.
.Holocaust Remembrance events to be held in former ghetto in Russia.
MOSCOW, January 27 (Itar-Tass) - Russia and the rest of the world
observes the Holocaust Memorial Day, which is marked annually January 27.
Exactly on this day 65 years ago, Soviet troops liberated the
Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp on the territory of Poland that witnessed
the ordeal and annihilation of about a million Jews.
For the first time ever, a commemorative event will be held Wednesday
at the site of the former Nazi ghetto in Kaluga, some 180 kilometers to
the southwest of Moscow.
It happened to be the first Nazi camp for Jewish convicts on the
territory of Europe to be liberated right at the peak of the World War II
combat operations.
The remembrance action has been organized by the Russian Jewish
Congress /RJC/ that has invited statesmen, public personalities and
clerics to attend it.
"It's important to hold remembrance actions right at the sites where
historic events took place," RJC President Yuri Kanner said.
The Nazis set up the Kaluga ghetto November 8, 1941 and the Red Army
liberated it a month and a half later.
In Moscow, remembrance candles will be lit in the Jewish Community
Center. The chief rabbi of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia,
Berl Lazar, as well as diplomats from foreign agencies and representatives
of international organizations having missions in Moscow are expected to
attend.
Later in the day, a requiem party will be held at the Central Club of
Writers. It will be led by Alla Gerber, a member of Russia's Public
Chamber and President of the Holocaust Russian Fund.
Former prisoners of Auschwitz and veterans who liberated it have been
invited to speak at the party and to share their recollections.
The organizers will award prizes to the teachers, school and college
students who won the annual competition titled 'Lessons of the Holocaust:
a Pathway to Tolerance'.
Remembrance prayers will be held in all of Moscow's five synagogues.
The RJC says about a thousand former Jewish convicts of ghettos and
concentration camps live in Moscow today.
All in all, the Nazis killed about 3 million Jews who used to reside
on the territory of the former USSR. This was about a half of the country'
s Jewish population at the time.
.North Korea, South Korea exchange fire near sea border - agency.
SEOUL, January 27 (Itar-Tass) - Units of the North Korean and South
Korean Armed Forces exchanged fire "off waters near inter-Korean sea
border Wednesday morning," the Yonhap news agency said.
Seoul officials confirmed the incident, it indicated.
The exchange of fire occurred after North Korea declared a disputed
area of the Yellow Sea a no-sail zone.
High rank military officials told Yonhap the North Koreans fired
several artillery shells "into the Northern part of the Northern Limit
Line /NLL/" at around 09:05 local time.
No casualties or injuries have been reported, as both sides fired into
the air, Yonhap quoted North Korean government as saying.
"We are on high military alert," Park Sung-woo, a spokesman for the
South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff told reporters.
-0-kle
