“.. You can buy an awful lot for $27 billion – the size of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s budget for this year’s Apec summit in Vladivostok in his country’s far east.
You can buy seclusion.
Much of the money has been spent on building a huge conference complex on Russky Island -
- which is now connected to the mainland by a massive new $1.3 billion suspension bridge…”
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John Armstrong: Hi-de-hi from Putins, the pollies’ paradise – Politics – NZ Herald News.
