Taming Russia's Wild East: Vladivostok is now very much open for business, and as Kevin Cudby found, there are opportunities aplenty for serious entrepreneurs.(new markets)

NZ Business | October 1, 2005| | Copyright

It is seven o'clock on a hot, humid Monday evening. Waterfront bars and cafes trade briskly, cars and buses throng hilly streets lined with intricate 19th-century buildings; young women wearing as little as possible skillfully manoeuvre impossibly-tall stilettos across freshly-laid paving stones, avoiding the cracks; couples eat ice-creams, which dribble over enormous waffle cones onto skirts, trousers and shoes.

This is Vladivostok, the largest city in Russia's sparsely-populated and mysterious Far East, eastern terminal of the world's longest railway (the ...

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