[01/08/1999 - 12/15/2000]: 24194018-20060474F-001-019-2023

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## TABLE WHILE TALKING ABOUT LINKS WITH OUTER SPACE.Q

11. THE JANUARY 17, 1999 ELECTIONS FOR MAYOR WERE INVALIDATED WHEN, ONCE AGAIN, MORE THAN 50 PERCENT OF THE ELECTORATE STAYED AWAY FROM THE POLLS. HOWEVER, YURIY KOPYLOV WAS APPOINTED MAYOR IN DECEMBER, AND CONTINUED IN THAT POST UNTIL FINALLY ELECTED ON JUNE 19, 2000. KOPYLOV, NEEDLESS TO SAY, IS NAZDRATENKOQS PICKED MAN. DESPITE PERIODIC CLAIMS TO THE CONTRARY, IT IS EVIDENT THAT THE ABUSES OF WHICH CHEREPKOV WAS ACCUSED CONTINUE IN THE KOPYLOV ADMINISTRATION, AND WITH A VENGEANCE. NAZDRATENKO NOW LOOKS ELSEWHERE WHEN ASSIGNING BLAME FOR THE POWER AND HEATING PROBLEMS THAT PLAGUE VLADIVOSTOK, AND DOES NOT MENTION THE FACT THE CITY DUMA IS STILL NOT FORMED, HAVING FAILED TO ELECT A QUORUM (TWO OUT OF 22 MEMBERS) FOR THE NINETEENTH TIME IN DECEMBER, 2000. ON THE PLUS SIDE, HOWEVER, ONE SHOULD NOTE THAT THERE IS NO RELIABLE EVIDENCE THAT MAYOR KOPYLOV IS IN REGULAR COMMUNICATION WITH EXTRATERRESTRIALS.

## THE ECONOMICS OF PLUNDER: NAZDRATENKO CLEANS UP

12. IN EARLY 1999, NAZDRATENKO MOVED AGAINST HIS OTHER MAJOR POLITICAL OPPONENTS IN PRIMORYE, INCLUDING KRAY DUMA CHAIRMAN SERGEY DUDNIK. DUDNIK WAS ACCUSED OF MISMANAGING THE NAKHODKA FREE ZONE, AND OF CAUSING THE COLLAPSE OF BANK NAKHODKA, AMONG OTHER THINGS. A YEAR LATER, ON JANUARY 23, 2000, DUDNIK WAS REPLACED AS CHAIRMAN BY SERGEY ZHEKOV, AN APPARATCHIK LOYAL TO NAZDRATENKO.

13. NAZDRATENKO AND HIS ALLIES ALSO SEIZED THE OPPORTUNITY TO MOVE IN ON THE MOST PROFITABLE COMPANIES IN THE VLADIVOSTOK AREA AND GAIN A QPIECE OF THE ACTION.Q A CASE IN POINT WAS FESCO Q THE FAR EAST SHIPPING COMPANY Q ONE OF THE FEW MAJOR ENTERPRISES IN VLADIVOSTOK THAT TURNS A LEGITIMATE PROFIT AND BENEFITS FROM THE INVOLVEMENT OF FOREIGN INVESTORS, WHO HAVE A FORTY-SIX PERCENT SHARE. NAZDRATENKO FIRST REPORTEDLY THREATENED ANDREW FOX, A BOARD MEMBER REPRESENTING FOREIGN INTERESTS, WITH A LONG TERM IN JAIL UNLESS THE FOREIGNERS HANDED OVER SEVEN PERCENT OF FESCO TO THE PRIMORYE ADMINISTRATION. FOX LEFT THE COUNTRY INSTEAD. THEN, AFTER A YEAR-LONG BATTLE, NAZDRATENKO AND HIS ALLIES EFFECTIVELY TOOK OVER THE MANAGEMENT OF FESCO IN MAY, 2000, GAINING SEVEN SEATS ON THE 11-MEMBER BOARD OF DIRECTORS. FESCO HAS NOT FLOURISHED UNDER THE NAZDRATENKO MANAGEMENT TEAM. ITS ASSETS, ONCE VALUED AT OVER A BILLION U.S. DOLLARS, NOW ARE VALUED AT UNDER 400 MILLION. FESCO IS LOSING ABOUT TEN TO TWENTY PERCENT OF ITS ASSET VALUE EVERY YEAR.