Corruption, unfinished buildings, painted grass, rumors about fabulous costs, environmental problems-through all this we went before Sochi, preparing for the APEC-2012 summit in Vladivostok. I remember how, before the summit, Vladivostok turned into a gigantic construction site: bridges, roads appeared on the island of Russian, where we used to travel with “savages” with classmates, a university complex grew up.