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Wednesday, November 12th, 2003
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2:49a - NYC Walks
Instead of working, I made a map of several of the longest walks that I've done. The route of the NYC Marathon is shown for comparison. It would be fun to enter the marathon with the intention of walking it. I hear many people do just that. It's the only way to cross the Verrazano Narrows Bridge on foot.
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2:50a - The Golden Horde Strikes Again!
According to leaked results of the 2002 census of the Russian Federation, Chinese are now the fourth largest ethnic group in the country. In 1989, the year of the last Soviet census, Chinese in Russia numbered just over 5,000, a number insignificant one that Goskomstat SSSR publications included Chinese in the category "Other." Today, they number 3.26 million (2.2% of the total population). This is more Chinese than in the United States, a country with almost twice Russia's population and a history of Chinese immigration a century and a half longer.
More than three-fourths of this population lives in two of Russia's seven federal okrugs, Siberia and the Far East. Demographic data by administrative division has not yet been released (or leaked), but it is safe to say that most of this population lives in three regions of the Far East: Primorye Kray, Khabarovsk Kray, and Amur Oblast. Even if half of the Chinese cited as living in the two federal okrugs live in Siberia (which is quite unlikely), the Chinese population of the Far East is over 18%. 24% is more probable. Opportunities for these immigrants abound. Vladimir Radyuhin writes that:
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Thanks.  tazadebevita. for the title.
Edit: I just found a website about Vladivostok in Chinese. Its purpose seems to be to promote investment and settlement in the city, which is called Haishenwei (海参崴) in Chinese. It also includes some brief information about the history which led to the region becoming part of Russia. The Yüan and Qing dynasties (and to a lesser degree the Ming dynasty) included the region that became Primorye Kray, and the Qing dynasty also ruled what became Khabarovskiy Kray and Amurskaya Oblast, but all these regions (along with territory in Turkestan) were ceded to Russia as a result of the Sino-Russian war of 1858-60.
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