Alexander Krutikov, a broad-shouldered Russian farmer, leans out of the window of his Japanese 4X4 and shouts a greeting to a worker by the side of a cabbage field: "Viktor, Ni-Hao!"
Mr Krutikov owns 100 hectares of land in a small village 40 miles from Vladivostok, in Russia's far east. Viktor, whose real name is Li, is one of 18 Chinese workers who toil on Mr Krutikov's land. He comes from Suifenhe - just across the Chinese border - and lives with other workers in a wooden shack, 10 to a room.
