He is checking tax collections for the state budget. Here is our own correspondent in Vladivostok Ilya Zimin. The interior minister who arrived today in Vladivostok was forced to change his route. The meeting was held at Conference Building in the countryside, perhaps because the residents were blocking traffic on one of the busiest thoroughfares of the town which was to be used by the minister. For the third day, instead of taking their ordinary evening rest, people are now taking to the streets, demanding from the local authorities that they fulfill their duties.
Every time there are more and more pickets.
This enables them to block not just main roads but also to stop the cars which are trying to by- pass the pickets through the back streets. In fact, most drivers understand and support the pickets. Today Kulikov is holding a meeting with the law-enforcement bodies of the Maritime Territory. To which areas in the Far East do you attach the most importance. That is mainly the Maritime Region, as far as I know, and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy.