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This Clinton Presidential Library folder holds NSC cables from January 1999 to December 2000, filed under the heading "Flying Saucer or UFO". A withdrawal sheet lists eleven cables that were withheld in full or in part under Presidential Records Act and FOIA restrictions. The released cables include an FBIS summary of a Bogota TV newscast, which notes that a UFO photograph printed by El Espectador was a hoax. They also include a US Embassy Beijing report on Quanzhou, Fujian, and a Vladivostok cable on Governor Yevgeniy Nazdratenko.
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RUSSIAN FAR EAST, EFFECTIVELY SENT VALENTIN KUZOV, NAZDRATENKOQS TAME PRESIDENTIAL PEPRESENTATIVE, TO THE KNACKERQS YARD AND USHERED IN A NEW ERA IN CENTERPRIMORYE RELATIONS. DARK SUMMERS, FROZEN WINTERS 19. DURING THE SUMMER OF 2000, SEVERAL AREAS OF PRIMORYE WERE HIT BY SERIOUS ELECTRICAL POWER BLACKOUTS THAT LASTED UP TO 16 HOURS PER DAY. DALENERGO, THE PRIMARY ENERGY SUPPLIER TO THE REGION, WAS FORCED UNDER THE CURRENT COST-SHARING ARRANGEMENTS TO CUT OFF POWER TO CONSUMERS WHO DID NOT PAY THEIR BILLS, AND IN TURN DALENERGO WAS UNABLE TO FIND SUFFICIENT FUEL TO GENERATE THE POWER NECESSARY TO POWER THE GRID. NAZDRATENKO, POINTING THE FINGER OF BLAME EVERYWHERE BUT AT HIMSELF, PERSUADED MOSCOW TO ALLOW THE REMOVAL OF THE PREVIOUS HEAD OF DALENERTGO - A CHUBAYS MAN -- AND HIS REPLACEMENT BY YURIY LIKHOYDA, NAZDRATENKOQS DEPUTY IN CHARGE OF ENERGY QUESTIONS. UNFORTUNATELY, THE POWER SHORTAGES CONTINUED INTO THE FALL AND WINTER, AND SOON THE MAJOR PROBLEM FOR MANY OUTLYING MUNICIPALITIES WAS NOT LIGHT, BUT HEAT. NAZDRATENKO BEGAN LOOKING ELSEWHERE TO CAST BLAME. 20. AS THE FUEL CRISIS BEGAN TO BUILD, PULIKOVSKIY VISITED PRIMORYE IN EARLY OCTOBER - A VISIT UNDERTAKEN EARLIER THAN PLANNED IN ORDER TO COINCIDE WITH NAZDRATENKOQS HOSPITALIZATION. DURING HIS VISIT, PULIKOVSKIY COMMENTED THAT HE WAS DISPLEASED WITH THE QINEFFECTIVENESS OF FISHING QUOTA DISTRIBUTION BY PRIMORYE MANAGEMENT.Q WHEN PULIKOVSKIY COMPLETED HIS FAMILIARIZATION VISITS TO ALL THE RFE TERRITORIES ON OCTOBER 20, HE GAVE A PRESS CONFERENCE IN MAGADAN IN WHICH HE MENTIONED THAT HE CONSIDERED PRIMORYE TO BE THE QREGION WITH THE MOST IRRATIONAL MANAGEMENTQ,Q AND REMARKED THAT QTHE ECONOMIC SITUATION IN PRIMORYE HAS BEEN WORSENING FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS, WHICH DEMONSTRATES THE ECONOMIC INCOMPETENCE OF THE REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIONQQ PULIKOVSKIY ALSO NOTED THAT MOST COMPLAINTS HE RECEIVED CAME FROM PRIMORYE. QPEOPLE DID NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT BAD HOUSING OR LOW SALARY. THEY COMPLAINED ABOUT THE GOVERNORQS, MAYORQS, AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENTQS ACTIONS. THIS MEANS THAT THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT IS FAR FROM PEOPLE AND IS NOT PERFORMING ITS FUNCTIONS.Q 21. ON OCTOBER 26, PULIKOVSKIY GAVE A TV INTERVIEW IN WHICH HE SAID THAT THE PRIMORYE GOVERNOR AND QDALQENERGOQ MANAGERS WERE INFORMED THAT THEY QWILL HAVE TO RESIGN,Q IF THEY FAIL TO PROVIDE STABLE HEAT AND ENERGY SUPPLIES TO PRIMORYE. PULIKOVSKIY SAID THAT QIF THESE LEADERS ARE NOT ABLE TO STABILIZE THE ENERGY SITUATION IN THE REGION, THEN THEY CANNOT MANAGE THE
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