Rotary to help local children By Viktoria Vasilenko Kathleen and Philip Silvers flew a long way to help out Sakhalin children and families.
Governors cooperate Landfill pollutes city Can plant opens.
Sakhalin Briefs Governors cooperate Sakhalin Gov. Igor Farkhutdinov and Alaskan Gov. Tony Knowles signed an economic cooperation agreement during a recent visit to the state by a Sakhalin delegation. Under the agreement, the two oil-producing regions will cooperate in such sectors as banking, energy, construction, fishing, transport, and communications. The Sakhalin administration will also set up a trade office in Alaska to draw investors to its shelf oil projects. The Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk landfill is contaminating city air and water, a recent investigation by the State Sanitary and Epidemic Monitoring Center revealed. According to the center, the dump was to have been capped in 1993 but authorities routinely burn garbage dumped there to create space for more refuse.