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...Moscow still has enough concern about China's intentions that it won't sell Beijing its best stuff. China wanted a new 4,100-km oil pipeline to go from Siberia directly into its territory, to ensure control over supplies; instead, Russia is building the main line to Nakhodka on the Pacific, from where it can sell to Japan, the U.S. and Korea, with just a branch to China. Perhaps the greatest potential deal the two could strike is on manpower. Russia's male life expectancy has slumped to 58. It faces a declining population and will need millions...
...brother for a pipeline to refineries in Daqing. During a visit to Moscow last month, Premier Wen Jiabao repeated China's entreaties but received no promises. Meanwhile, Japan has offered to pay for part of the multibillion-dollar pipeline--as long as it terminates in the Russian port of Nakhodka, near Japan. Moscow seems inclined to take Japan's offer. "China feels betrayed," says Bernard Cole, an expert on China's oil needs at the National War College...
...designed to embarrass the Kremlin, but it underscored China's vulnerability. Meanwhile, Beijing's planned pipeline is in danger of being thwarted by its regional nemesis, Japan, which has offered to pay for part of the multibillion-dollar project?so long as it terminates in the Russian port of Nakhodka, which is nearer Japan. Moscow seems inclined to take Japan's offer, and "China feels betrayed," says Bernard Cole, an expert at the National War College on China's oil needs...
...more a page. Sunday painters in Izmailovo Park display their labored tributes to the Russian futurists, suprematists and constructivists of the early 20th century. More than 200 experimental studio theaters have sprouted in Moscow alone. The cultural explosion has been felt as far away as the Pacific port of Nakhodka, where local artists set up a puppet theater workshop, and in Yaroslavl in the Soviet heartland, scene of a rollicking street festival celebrating the arts...
...other major U. S. cities have, linked up with Minsk, Odessa, Murmansk, Nakhodka, Baku and Tashkent...