Gateway to the East?
Regional Cooperation on the Border between China and Russia
Vasilij Kašin, Aleksandra Jan'kova
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
Cross-border cooperation between regions in Russia’s far east and China’s northeast is poorly developed. The regional economies on the Russian side are small, and the infrastructure is poorly developed. In highly centralised Russia, there was always a lack of funding and investments for regions far away from Moscow. Local elites also contributed to the fact that numerous cooperation agreements and framework programs were never implemented. But in February 2022, an upheaval took place in Russia’s foreign economic orientation so that now, for the first time ever, there is a chance of overcoming the obstacles that have stood in the way of cooperation between the territories along the Sino-Russian border.
(Osteuropa 7-9/2023, pp. 321–332)