Russia pushes to get more citizens to move to its Far East
The Russian Far East is in red.
Many Russians fear that their nation’s Far East could end up being absorbed by China, with its 1.4 billion people and huge economy.
So the Russian government, following the directive of strongman President Vladimir Putin, is offering to give land to lure Russian settlers to the vast region. The nine Far Eastern regions covered by the program take up more than a third of Russia’s area but are home to only 6.1 million people, compared with the 110 million Chinese living across the border in Manchuria.
Mr. Putin said in 2013 that the development of Siberia and the Far East must be “our national priority for the entire 21st Century.”
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