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Articles

Geopolitical Priorities in Russia's Regional Policies

Opportunities and Risks

Pages 44-62 | Published online: 09 May 2016
 

Abstract

State regional policies are generally based either on the goal of stimulating the development of specific regions or of equalizing the level of development among the regions. The first path is generally pursued by developing states while rich states favor the second path. Russia has in the past experimented with both vectors of regional policy. Since the annexation of Crimea, a third factor has come to dominate: geopolitics. The main goal of Russia's regional policy is securing control of geopolitically significant territories. The high expense of such a policy makes it unsustainable during a period of economic retrenchment.

Notes

English translation © 2015 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, from the Russian text © 2015 “Kontrapunkt.” “Geopoliticheskie prioritety v regional'noi politike Rossii: vozmozhnosti i riski,” Kontrapunkt, 2015, no. 1, pp. 1–11. Translated by Brad Damaré.

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