The World - News from Sept. 25, 1988
The Soviet Union has scrapped rules that effectively closed a vast region facing the Sea of Japan to foreigners and most citizens from other parts of the country, the government newspaper Izvestia reported. The region, known as the Primorsky Krai, has a population of about 2 million and includes the port of Vladivostok, which is home to the Soviet navy’s Pacific fleet. The only known exception to the ban on foreigners visiting Vladivostok since the 1930s was a brief summit there in 1975 between Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev and President Gerald R. Ford. The Izvestia report did not specify if foreigners will now be able to travel to Vladivostok.
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