title: Four. At the Periphery of the Empire:
abstract: When viewed from Moscow or Saint Petersburg, the it industry in Vladivostok does not seem like a remarkable place.Most of our interlocutors from the Rus sian capitals have no clear idea about the activity of their colleagues on the Pacific coast: located more than five thousand miles away from Moscow and feeling even more remote due to the seven-hour time difference, observers may perceive it as a small and negligible periphery. 1However, a closer look at Vladivostok's it community offers a pecu