Putin’s Turn To East Boosts Demand For Chinese Language Expertise And Fears Of China – Analysis
In Soviet times, Russians joked that the optimists were learning English, the pessimists Chinese, and the realists Kalashnikov...
The Russian Far East is a region in Northeast Asia. It is the easternmost part of Russia and the Asian continent; and is administered as a part of the Far Eastern Federal District, which is located between Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia and the Pacific Ocean. The area's largest city is Khabarovsk, followed by Vladivostok. The region shares land borders with the countries of Mongolia, China, and North Korea to its south, as well as maritime boundaries with Japan to its southeast, and with the United States along the Bering Strait to its northeast.
In Soviet times, Russians joked that the optimists were learning English, the pessimists Chinese, and the realists Kalashnikov...
By Carl Schreck
(RFE/RL) -- Glimpses of the life of a U.S. soldier arrested in Russia on theft charges were visible in..