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...Japan is four times as costly as a ticket connecting Vladivostok and any major city in China or Japan. It takes just  hours by train for anyone in Vladivostok or Khabarovsk, separated by China by the Amur River, to reach Chinese commercial hubs like Jixi and Shuangyashan. It takes nearly a week to get to Moscow. In Khabarovsk, the Lada, the boxy, no-frills Soviet compact ubiquitous in European Russia, is vastly outnumbered by Toyotas, Nissans and Hyundais on the highway connecting Irkutsk, on the eastern fringe of Siberia, with Vladivostok. "They call the Far East the Land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The View from Khabarovsk: Russia's End | 9/26/2009 | See Source »

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