{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Context XXI","provider_url":"http:\/\/contextxxi.org","title":"The Far East\n","author_name":"Amelie Lanier","width":"1200","height":"800","url":"https:\/\/contextxxi.org\/the-far-east.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/contextxxi.org\/the-far-east.html'\u003EThe Far East\n\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003EVladivostok\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003EVladivostok was founded in 1859 after the territory and its surroundings had been ceded to Russia by China in a set of treaties between 1858 and 1860. Those treaties enlarged Russia\u2019s territory considerably and provided Russia with a port which from the very start had the objective to secure Russia\u2019s dominion on its Pacific coast. Therefore it was immediately baptized ’Command over the East’, even before its first real houses were built.\n\n\u003Cbr \/\u003EFirst being only a kind of \u003Ca href=\"..\/the-far-east.html\" class=' pts_suite'\u003E(...)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}