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Russia's far east: a bridge to Asia, or to nowhere?
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Even in Russia's tightly controlled electoral system, Putin fell short of an outright regional majority in the presidential election in March. He polled 48 percent in Primorye, far below his national tally of 64 percent.
Konstantin Bovdik, a qualified Chinese teacher, long ago gave up his career in education and made good money - 60,000 roubles ($1,900) per month - working on the Zolotoi Rog bridge. Now the 34-year-old could lose his job.
"Well, this is it. The bridge is built. The summit will end. And we feel the economic crisis breathing hard down our necks," said the tanned anti-corrosion specialist, wearing a blue boiler suit and orange hard hat as he shouldered two three-meter steel beams.
"All the money goes back to Moscow, and then gets pumped out to London," he said. "They steal everything and then hit us over the head with coshes... This is a police state."
Primorye Governor Vladimir Miklushevsky, appointed this year to run the region of two million people after his predecessor was fired amid a slew of corruption allegations, said the authorities needed to work to restore public trust.
"There is a general lack of confidence among the people in the authorities. Power needs to be more open," said the 44-year-old engi-
neer, a native ofYekaterinburg originally brought in to run the new university on Russky Island.
Former governor Sergei Darkin has, meanwhile, landed a job in Moscow as Russia's deputy minister for regional development.
"It's spitting in the face of the masses," says Alexander Latkin, the 65-year-old director of the city's Institute of International Business and Economics.
CHINA SYNDROME
With the Soviet collapse of 1991 a fading memory, fears that a rising China might colonize and eventually annex the east are scoffed at by local experts - even if Moscow occasionally plays up the perceived threat to Russia's territorial integrity.
"We still face the task of defending our far eastern territory from excessive expansion by citizens of bordering states," Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev intoned at a cabinet meeting last month after returning from a trip to Vladivostok, where he opened the Russky Island bridge to traffic.
"There are fewer Chinese here than there were 10 years ago," replied sinologist Viktor Larin, adding that low-paid jobs were now being taken by migrant laborers from former-Soviet Central Asia and nearby North Korea. The Chinatowns of Russia's far east had all but disappeared, he said, as
migrants were lured home by economic growth rates more than twice as high as Russia's.
The contrast on each side of the border is stark, the Chinese territories booming and drawing in ever more workers while the Russian Far East struggles with the drift westwards.
China's more than 1.3 billion population needs Russia's Siberian and far eastern natural resources, the oil, the minerals and timber , and "it's cheaper to buy them than to fight for them," said Larin.
"Theydon'tneedto settle here."
Fears China might occupy swathes of Russia's eastern territory were, he said, a "collective, subconsciousmyth".
Russia has nothing to fear by opening up the east - maybe this time it will succeed, according to Primorye's first post-Soviet governor Vladimir Kuznetsov, who went on to serve as Russia's consul general in San Francisco.
"Vladivostok was founded as a window to the Asian world. Then there was revolution, civil war, Soviet rule. When I became governor my chief task was to open up the city. It was the second attempt - and it didn't work out," said Kuznetsov, now a tutor at the Far Eastern Federal University on Russky Island.
"Now, we have a third chance -the APEC forum."