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Putin wants to transform Russia’s far east into a tourist hotspot – but history shows it won’t be easy

Written by Natasha Kuhrt, Senior Lecturer in International Peace & Security, King's College London

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, a city on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's far east.Kokhanchikov/Shutterstock

Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has taken a trip to Russia’s untamed and isolated far east as part of a campaign to promote tourism in the region. This is the latest in a long list of largely unsuccessful attempts to regenerate the...

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