Health Care Workers to Hunger-Strike in Protest of Labor Conditions

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Sergei Porter / VedomostiHealth care workers in Ufa will go a hunger strike to protest labor conditions.

Health care workers in central Russia threatened to stage a hunger strike starting Monday to protest what they described as "repercussions" against co-workers who demanded better working conditions and higher salaries at previous protests, media reports said.

The hunger strike, planned in Ufa, the capital of Russia's republic of Bashkortostan, would be the third by medical workers in the city since the start of a labor dispute with local health care officials last April, Ekho Moskvy reported.

About 20 health care workers are expected to go on a hunger strike on Monday, joining the protest started last week by a local ambulance service manager, Svetlana Yusupova, the report said.

Protesters, many of them ambulance workers, accuse local authorities of imposing penalties and putting "pressure" on their colleagues who took part in previous protests, Noviye Izvestia reported, citing anesthesiologist Irina Tishina, who planned to join the strike.

Supporters also accuse health administrators of having denied water for six hours to Yusupova, while holding her for an "interview" after she went on hunger strike last week, the head of a medical workers' trade union, Andrei Konoval, said on his LiveJournal social network page.

Local health workers were awarded salary increases after their two hunger strikes last year, but say many of their demands remain unmet, according to media reports.

In Moscow the RBC news agency uncovered an apparent plan to fire 14,000 doctors in the city by the year 2018.

According to an agreement signed by Deputy Health Minister Airat Farrakhov and Deputy Mayor Leonid Pechatnikov, the number of doctors at state clinics and hospitals in Moscow will be 40.9 per 10,000 residents by 2018, RBC reported Monday.

There are currently 64,900 such doctors, and with an estimated 12.4 million people expected to reside in Moscow in 2018, the number of doctors will have to be lowered to 50,800, the report said, citing data by federal statistics service Rosstat and City Hall's labor department.

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Veteran designers are still as innovative as newcomers

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Pradas little sister is all grown up

Ever since Pradas glass honeycomb building opened in Omotesando 12 years ago, the Herzog-and-de Meuron-designed building has become a monument to architecture and shopping in Tokyo. In late March, the same designers returned just across the street to realize a brand new boutique for Pradas kid-sister brand Miu Miu.

Zoning laws prevented another tower, so the store has had to make do with two floors, which are almost completely covered with an oversized canopy. Its a bit like a cross between a metal box and a huge copper orange that has been sliced open to reveal a bumpy peel that runs under the roof and throughout the shop interior.

Inside, days of yore meet retro futurism with intense chartreuse-green wallpaper and transparent Perspex rail finishing. The brand takes its cues from the kind of girl who listens to punk rock but cant live without her hair bows, so the juxtaposition is fitting.

And much like a maturing younger sister, Miu Miu is ready to stand out on her own.

Miu Miu 3-17-8, Minami Aoyama Minato-ku; 03 6434 8591; aoyama.miumiu.com/en

Issey Miyake may have been around the block several times, but its still up for letting loose. This month the brand launched a new shopping playground, simply called Issey Miyake Marunouchi. The name is where the simplicity ends, though, because the buildings fashion-forward architectural design by Tokujin Yoshioka and the high-tech goods the store showcases are anything but straightforward.

The shop brings together the more experimental Miyake-run labels, including the new menswear line Homme Plisse, which re-imagines the brands revolutionary pleats technology, and In-Ei, the origami-meets-interiors line of products. Of course, you can also find his 2-D-to-3-D origami clothing line 132 5. as well as a selection of the much coveted Bao Bao bags, some of which will be sold here exclusively.

The first-floor shop is airy and spacious with walls slashed by red triangular panels, creating a high-energy atmosphere. Miyake often taps Yoshioka for his stores, and in this case the space is also housing a series of futuristic Yoshioka-designed watches, which are perfectly at home in this new environment.

Issey Miyake Marunouchi: 2-3-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; 03-5221-9900; http://www.isseymiyake.com/im_marunouchi

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Pradas little sister is all grown up

Ever since Pradas glass honeycomb building opened in Omotesando 12 years ago, the Herzog-and-de Meuron-designed building has become a monument to architecture and shopping in Tokyo. In late March, the same designers returned just across the street to realize a brand new boutique for Pradas kid-sister brand Miu Miu.

Zoning laws prevented another tower, so the store has had to make do with two floors, which are almost completely covered with an oversized canopy. Its a bit like a cross between a metal box and a huge copper orange that has been sliced open to reveal a bumpy peel that runs under the roof and throughout the shop interior.

Inside, days of yore meet retro futurism with intense chartreuse-green wallpaper and transparent Perspex rail finishing. The brand takes its cues from the kind of girl who listens to punk rock but cant live without her hair bows, so the juxtaposition is fitting.

And much like a maturing younger sister, Miu Miu is ready to stand out on her own.

Miu Miu 3-17-8, Minami Aoyama Minato-ku; 03 6434 8591; aoyama.miumiu.com/en

Issey Miyake may have been around the block several times, but its still up for letting loose. This month the brand launched a new shopping playground, simply called Issey Miyake Marunouchi. The name is where the simplicity ends, though, because the buildings fashion-forward architectural design by Tokujin Yoshioka and the high-tech goods the store showcases are anything but straightforward.

The shop brings together the more experimental Miyake-run labels, including the new menswear line Homme Plisse, which re-imagines the brands revolutionary pleats technology, and In-Ei, the origami-meets-interiors line of products. Of course, you can also find his 2-D-to-3-D origami clothing line 132 5. as well as a selection of the much coveted Bao Bao bags, some of which will be sold here exclusively.

The first-floor shop is airy and spacious with walls slashed by red triangular panels, creating a high-energy atmosphere. Miyake often taps Yoshioka for his stores, and in this case the space is also housing a series of futuristic Yoshioka-designed watches, which are perfectly at home in this new environment.

Issey Miyake Marunouchi: 2-3-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; 03-5221-9900; http://www.isseymiyake.com/im_marunouchi

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