Demonstrations in Vladivostok a decade ago were quelled, but an attitude of independence from faraway Moscow remains.
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Dmitry V. Shlapentokh is an Associate Professor of History at Indiana University South Bend. He teaches World and Russian/Soviet and post-Soviet history and is the author of several books and articles, and recieved his PhD from the University of Chicago. He was born in USSR.