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He plays on the popular distrust of outsiders coming in to run the krai.
ECONOMIST: The contest for control of one of Russia's richest regions
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Yevgeny Nazdratenko, governor of Primorsky Krai, now speaks publicly of the need to bring the Russian border guards into line.
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Nikolai Sadomsky, a vice-governor of Primorsky Krai, says his region has suffered ever since Mikhail Gorbachev unwisely let rail tariffs rise.
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Metals are mined and wood is cut, but they are usually exported for processing and manufacturing, leaving the krai bereft of local industry.
ECONOMIST: The contest for control of one of Russia's richest regions
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As governor of the appallingly run Primorsky Krai (Maritime Territory) of Russia's Far East, he is a living symbol of the problems facing foreign companies in Russia.
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For a foretaste, look at Primorski Krai, a miserable spot in far-eastern Russia where crass politicians, rampant crime and economic decline have given people a hellish winter.
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Vladimir Arkhipov, the Russian foreign-trade ministry's representative in Primorsky Krai's free economic zone of Nakhodka wonders why Russians should tend to anything but their own development problems, such as those at Vostochny port.
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Four times the area of France, and source of a fifth of the world's nickel and two-fifths of its platinum, Russia's entire Krasnoyarsk krai, or region, has only about as many inhabitants as Boston and despite their land's vast natural wealth, they are as poor as church mice.
ECONOMIST: The contest for control of one of Russia's richest regions