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Local Responses to the Contested Border in Northern Crimea
This article analyses the situation in Crimea, which de facto seceded from Ukraine and joined Russia in 2014 following a local referendum, the results of which are not recognised by the international community...
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Geopolitics and Political Geography in Russia: Global Context and National Characteristics
Against the backdrop of global trends, the main directions, methodological approaches, and the most striking research results in the field of geopolitics and political geography in 2011–2021 are considered. Po...
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Open AccessIdentity of Kaliningraders: influence of Social Beliefs on the Choice of Self-Identification
Research into the identity of residents of Kaliningrad Oblast is characterized by a combination of close attention to the ideologically significant factors of its formation and its deficit in personal belief a...
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Tertiarization of the Economy in Russian Regions: Deindustrialization or Postindustrialization?
The accelerated development of the tertiary sphere has long been a refrain in the world scientific discourse. At the same time, tertiarization in Russia differs from the processes taking place in developed cou...
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Supercomputer Twin of a Nuclear Energy Installation: Developmental Approaches and Application Experience
Approaches to the technology developed by OKBM Afrikantov for creating a supercomputer twin of a nuclear power plant on the basis of a three-level model are described. A software implementation of this technol...
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The article analyzes the internal and external connectivity of passenger transport systems in Russian regions with vast peripheral areas based on a case study of three key regions with average and low developm...
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Russian-Chinese Interaction in the Context of the One Belt — One Road Initiative: Discourse Analysis
This article examines the attitude of the Russian society toward the Russian-Chinese relations in general and toward the One Belt — One Road (OBOR) megaproject in particular. An analysis is made of the Russian...
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Territorial Gradients of Socioeconomic Development of Russia’s Borderland
Socioeconomic differences in different parts of Russia’s borderland are analyzed. Based on a compiled database of statistical indicators for 2000–2016 characterizing demographic, economic, and social developme...
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For systems with strong electron correlations and strong electron–phonon interaction, we analyze the electron–phonon interaction in local variables. The effects of the mutual influence of electron–electron and...
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Impact of crisis in Russia–Ukraine relations on cross-border interactions in Belgorod oblast
A case study of Belgorod and Kharkiv oblasts examines the current state of cross-border interactions between Russia and Ukraine after the 2014 crisis. Changes in socioeconomic indicators of the neighboring reg...
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Economic and social reforms in the North Caucasus: Goals, limitations, problems, and results
Problems regarding the development of the North Caucasus have been key issues on the agenda of federal and regional authorities for many years. Their visions of the possibilities and methods of development var...
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The barrier function of Russia’s borders
Research of state borders has long discussed a contradiction typical of many countries, between growth in cross-border flows under the influence of globalization and regional integration processes and the pers...
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Transcarpathian oblast and Kaliningrad oblast: Contrasts and cooperation in the east borderlands of the European Union
The ethnocultural, historical and socioeconomic factors of cross-border cooperation in the eastern borderlands of the European Union are analyzed with a case study of two regions: Kaliningrad oblast of Russia ...
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Structural features of the economy and gradients of socioeconomic development of the border regions of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine
The authors analyze the dynamics of the main socioeconomic indices in neighboring regions of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. They evaluate the terrotiorial gradients along the borders as one of the main factors ...
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The paper defines the idea of capitalness, describes types of capitals in different countries, and outlines the typical aspects of Russia’s capital. Differences between industrial and postindustrial cities are...
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Cities and social processes: Rethinking notions and concepts
Some categories used in Russian geography to analyze spatial aspects of social processes in cities are considered. The possibility to interpret the same terms differently is shown depending on scientific appro...
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Geopolitical worldview of Russian students
The paper summarizes some of the results of the project “The Vision of Europe in the World,” supported by the 7th European Framework Programme. On the basis of the materials of an opinion survey of 827 student...
