Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev praised on Monday a Far Eastern city of Vladivostok, that will horde a APEC limit in September, observant it looked like San Francisco, though with “better” people.
Medvedev who came to Vladivostok to check comforts being built for a summit, praised a city’s new highways and bridges, that he pronounced reminded him of San Francisco.
“Vladivostok is substantially improved than San Francisco, though but there are similarities that come into mind since there is also an ocean, cessation bridges and a identical terrain,” Medvedev said, adding that “our people are really better.”
Medevedev’s criticism echoed a matter from Soviet personality Nikita Khrushchev, who compared San Francisco with Vladivostok after his revisit to California in 1959.
The 2012 APEC limit that will be hold in a Far Eastern city in Sep 8-9 will cost Russia about 600 billion rubles ($18.5 billion) spent on building over 50 comforts and rebuilding open application networks.