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Так зовут эту замечательную девушку родом из Америки. А точнее из Нью-Йорка. Там же она выучила русский язык, а теперь работает в Московском отделении Британской газеты Файнэншел таймс...
Да. Она прилетела сюда на пару дней. Для работы над статьей про Владивосток, Саммит, Русский остров и т.д. и т.п. И да, она не поленилась в интернете найти меня, приехать на паром и спросить - что я думаю про строительство на Русском острове... ;)
Что могу сказать... Я польщен таким вниманием! %))
upd: А вот и сама статья. Doubt over legacy of Vladivostok facelift
Doubt over legacy of Vladivostok facelift At the edge of the Pacific Ocean, Russia is preparing to unveil the bridge to Vladivostok’s future. Whether it will be any use is another question altogether. Long forgotten by Moscow, Vladivostok, a former military town of 600,000 people, has unexpectedly found itself the winner of a Rb200bn government facelift as Russia turns its attention to its far east in an effort to build trade with Asia. In the four years before the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, which will be held in Vladivostok in September, the federal government has built up the city’s infrastructure at breakneck speed, constructing an international airport, two bridges, roads and highways. Vladivostok has attracted Rb680bn in total investment, with much of the money going to the bridge and its destination, Russky island, 3km off the mainland. All Apec events will take place on the island, where the guests will live in new luxury hotels. While most of the building is near completion, there are doubts about its legacy. Criticism is growing that Vladivostok has been turned into a modern-day Potemkin village, with too much emphasis on the scale and appearance of the projects rather than their utility. More than Rb3bn of federal money has been devoted to renovating existing buildings, ahead of Apec, yet Moscow has said this can only be spent on buildings visible along the guests’ route from the airport to the summit - and only on their façades. Artem Samsonov, a Communist party deputy in the region legislative assembly, complains that many of the city’s buildings are crumbling on the inside: “The homes here are old, there are problems with the pipes, and none of this is being fixed because all the money is going to renovating the façades.” Katya Pavlova, a student, says many compare the new city to a beautiful-looking apple that is rotten on the inside. “It is focusing on Apec, how many people are going to come, how huge it is going to be and how Russia is going to look on the international stage,” she says. “For the people [of Vladivostok] this is important but it less important than their daily needs, such as clean water sources.” Last month rainfall caused a retaining wall to collapse on to one of the new roads shortly before Dmitry Medvedev, the prime minister, was due to visit , prompting claims that construction standards had slipped in the rush to meet deadlines. Igor Pushkarev, the city’s mayor, is defensive about the road fiasco. “You can look at all of this [development] and see a beautiful picture. Or you can you use a microscope and pick out one speck of dirt and let it ruin the whole thing,” he says. But for many residents of Vladivostok, it is exactly this emphasis on the “beautiful picture” that is the problem. Questions also remain about why the government chose to build the imposing Russky bridge in the first place. Only 5,000 people live on the island to which it leads, and it is unclear how useful the summit facilities will be to residents when Apec is over. Though Vladivostok’s university will move on to Russky island in the autumn, the facilities built there for the summit are for the most part large conference halls unsuitable for lectures and seminars. Residents dismiss the authorities’ plans to turn the island into a town with 150,000 residents - a third of which would be students - as unrealistic. The federal government says the summit marks only the beginning of Vladivostok’s development. The president recently created a ministerial position devoted to the region, and Moscow says it will spend a further Rb600bn on far eastern infrastructure between 2014 and 2018. Standing on a ferry bound for his home on Russky island, Denis Yasinkov, a geological engineer, complains that the new bridge isn’t being built for him. He, like the vast majority of the island’s inhabitants, live on the far side and would only be able to reach the bridge along a road that is barely passable in inclement weather. Mr Yasinkov says he will be sad to see the island developed and to gain so many new neighbours. But he hopes it will be for the city and region’s greater good. “If Moscow wasn’t paying attention to Vladivostok it would be hard to say what Vladivostok’s fate would be. The city has been dying, people have been leaving,” he says. “The bridge is not for the people who live there but for the people who will live there in the future.”
А здесь её немного в песочнице обсудили http://vladivostok.livejournal.com/4452830.html
Да. Она прилетела сюда на пару дней. Для работы над статьей про Владивосток, Саммит, Русский остров и т.д. и т.п. И да, она не поленилась в интернете найти меня, приехать на паром и спросить - что я думаю про строительство на Русском острове... ;)
Что могу сказать... Я польщен таким вниманием! %))
upd: А вот и сама статья. Doubt over legacy of Vladivostok facelift
Doubt over legacy of Vladivostok facelift At the edge of the Pacific Ocean, Russia is preparing to unveil the bridge to Vladivostok’s future. Whether it will be any use is another question altogether. Long forgotten by Moscow, Vladivostok, a former military town of 600,000 people, has unexpectedly found itself the winner of a Rb200bn government facelift as Russia turns its attention to its far east in an effort to build trade with Asia. In the four years before the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, which will be held in Vladivostok in September, the federal government has built up the city’s infrastructure at breakneck speed, constructing an international airport, two bridges, roads and highways. Vladivostok has attracted Rb680bn in total investment, with much of the money going to the bridge and its destination, Russky island, 3km off the mainland. All Apec events will take place on the island, where the guests will live in new luxury hotels. While most of the building is near completion, there are doubts about its legacy. Criticism is growing that Vladivostok has been turned into a modern-day Potemkin village, with too much emphasis on the scale and appearance of the projects rather than their utility. More than Rb3bn of federal money has been devoted to renovating existing buildings, ahead of Apec, yet Moscow has said this can only be spent on buildings visible along the guests’ route from the airport to the summit - and only on their façades. Artem Samsonov, a Communist party deputy in the region legislative assembly, complains that many of the city’s buildings are crumbling on the inside: “The homes here are old, there are problems with the pipes, and none of this is being fixed because all the money is going to renovating the façades.” Katya Pavlova, a student, says many compare the new city to a beautiful-looking apple that is rotten on the inside. “It is focusing on Apec, how many people are going to come, how huge it is going to be and how Russia is going to look on the international stage,” she says. “For the people [of Vladivostok] this is important but it less important than their daily needs, such as clean water sources.” Last month rainfall caused a retaining wall to collapse on to one of the new roads shortly before Dmitry Medvedev, the prime minister, was due to visit , prompting claims that construction standards had slipped in the rush to meet deadlines. Igor Pushkarev, the city’s mayor, is defensive about the road fiasco. “You can look at all of this [development] and see a beautiful picture. Or you can you use a microscope and pick out one speck of dirt and let it ruin the whole thing,” he says. But for many residents of Vladivostok, it is exactly this emphasis on the “beautiful picture” that is the problem. Questions also remain about why the government chose to build the imposing Russky bridge in the first place. Only 5,000 people live on the island to which it leads, and it is unclear how useful the summit facilities will be to residents when Apec is over. Though Vladivostok’s university will move on to Russky island in the autumn, the facilities built there for the summit are for the most part large conference halls unsuitable for lectures and seminars. Residents dismiss the authorities’ plans to turn the island into a town with 150,000 residents - a third of which would be students - as unrealistic. The federal government says the summit marks only the beginning of Vladivostok’s development. The president recently created a ministerial position devoted to the region, and Moscow says it will spend a further Rb600bn on far eastern infrastructure between 2014 and 2018. Standing on a ferry bound for his home on Russky island, Denis Yasinkov, a geological engineer, complains that the new bridge isn’t being built for him. He, like the vast majority of the island’s inhabitants, live on the far side and would only be able to reach the bridge along a road that is barely passable in inclement weather. Mr Yasinkov says he will be sad to see the island developed and to gain so many new neighbours. But he hopes it will be for the city and region’s greater good. “If Moscow wasn’t paying attention to Vladivostok it would be hard to say what Vladivostok’s fate would be. The city has been dying, people have been leaving,” he says. “The bridge is not for the people who live there but for the people who will live there in the future.”
А здесь её немного в песочнице обсудили http://vladivostok.livejournal.com/4452830.html