This year’s Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) Leaders’ Summit in Russia has been called the most expensive international summit in history, but residents in the host city Vladivostok aren’t reaping any benefits.
Russia has invested more than $21 billion US in the two-day event, bulding a new airport, three bridges and a university campus on Russky Island, just off the coast of Vladivostok, where the meetings will take place.
But on the other side of the island, which normally has a population of about 5,000 people, locals have no access to telephones, public lighting or running water.
“Of course, we’d like some help,” resident
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