By Nika Khutsieva

MOSCOW (Reuters) -A Chinese business centre near a park featuring traditional Chinese pavilions, Russian adults learning Mandarin and practicing Kung fu, sizzling dishes being served in Chinese restaurants and car showrooms displaying Chinese vehicles.

As President Vladimir Putin prepares for a visit to China next week, signs of Beijing’s influence in the Russian capital abound.

“It seems that the contacts with China are intensifying. A mutual interest is growing,” said Natalia Gerasimova, a manager at a Russian company and a visitor to Moscow’s Chinese landscape park who said she had visited Beijing in April.

“They are open to us, they treat us well. So in Russia I do not see any resistance to these relations either. Yes, we have different mentalities, but we are ali

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