Chinese immigrants flood into the Russian Far East

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The Golden Dragon Hotel, in Russia's main Pacific port and naval base Vladivostok, does not take Russians as guests.

"We accept only Chinese," said the manager Ma Chan Bai, who explained that the 150-room hotel owned by a businessman from the northern Chinese city of Harbin catered exclusively to Chinese groups.

As more than 2 million Russians have left Russia's Far East and Siberia over the past decade in search of better economic conditions in the western regions, Chinese have been flooding in.

Russia's Chinese population has grown from just a few thousand in 1989 to 3.26 million, according to unpublished results of a 2002 census.

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