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VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (AP) _ Felled by drink, a fat man in a bathing suit lies in a filthy puddle on a seaside embankment under some steam pipes shedding their insulation.

A young man remonstrates with him to get up, then smirks and calls up an ironic Soviet-era turn of phrase: "The citizen wants to rest for a while."

When the Soviet Union collapsed and Vladivostok opened up to the world, many thought the city of steep hills and ocean vistas was on the verge of living up to its wistful self-image of being Russia's San Francisco.

But a decade ...

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