Subject: cnkpru again<br/>
Date: Dec 31, 2001 @ 17:02<br/>
Author: ps1966nl (&quot;ps1966nl&quot; &lt;smaardijk@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-427611023">An enlargement of the map I already mentioned in msg. 4770 can be <br/>
found at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.vld.ru/ppx/Filatov_yu/Hasan.htm">http://www.vld.ru/ppx/Filatov_yu/Hasan.htm</a><br/>
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Following talks between Russia and China, in 1997 170 hectares were <br/>
handed over by Russia to China in this region. The local governor, <br/>
Nazdratenko, has used this &quot;motherland sell-out&quot; theme extensively in <br/>
his struggle with Moscow, crying that this would give China an exit <br/>
to the sea, which would be detrimental to the economy of the Coastal <br/>
Territory (of which he was governor), and that it would be a crying <br/>
shame anyway to give away the sacred earth of Hasan, where the <br/>
Soviets fought off a Japanese army in 1938. I have never seen a map <br/>
of the area that was transfered, but I suspect that it wasn&#39;t really <br/>
a big deal. But you can still get very popular in Russia by <br/>
screaming &quot;not one inch of holy motherland etc.&quot; (and at the same <br/>
time not caring about the rest of that motherland).<br/>
<br/>
It looks like the railway bridge really very nearly misses the <br/>
tripoint on the map!<br/>
<br/>
Anyway, I wish all you BP people a great 2002!<br/>
<br/>
Peter S.</div>