No. 230: The Russian Far East

Author(s): Andrei Kalachinsky, Shiau-shyang Liou
Series Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perović, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Volume: 230
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich; Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO), University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), George Washington University; Center for Eastern European Studies (CEES), University of Zurich; German Association for East European Studies (DGO)
Publication Year: 2018

In this issue of the RAD, Andrei Kalachinsky first considers the controversy surrounding the September 2018 gubernatorial elections in Primorsky Krai, in which a Kremlin-backed candidate won a rerun vote after the annulment of the original election. Shiau-shyang Liou then examines the contested issue of Chinese immigrant labor in the Russian Far East. He argues that while Russia has relaxed restrictions on Chinese immigration in response to labor shortages, increasing incomes and emerging labor shortfalls in China may still lead to declining numbers of Chinese immigrant workers in the years ahead.

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