2003-08-19 13:20 * RUSSIA * FAR-EAST * EMERGENCY * EXERCISE * STATE OF EMERGENCY IN RUSSIA'S FAR EAST VLADIVOSTOK, August 19, 2003 /RIA Novosti correspondent Anatoly Ilyukhov/ -- An emergency situation has been declared in four regions of Russia's Far East with the beginning of a command-and-staff exercise to drill clean-up operations. The areas concerned are Primorye, Khabarovsk territory, Sakhalin region and Kamchatka, the press centre of the Primorye administration told RIA Novosti on Tuesday. The state of emergency only accompanies the exercise and does not restrict the constitutional rights of citizens, the local media, enterprises and cultural institutions. The...