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Cross-Border Cooperation and Transformation of Regional Identities in the Ukrainian–Russian Borderlands: Towards a Euroregion “Slobozhanshchyna”? Part 2*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Tatiana Zhurzhenko
Tatiana Zhurzhenko*
Affiliation:
School of Philosophy, V. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine; Institute for East European History, University of Vienna, Austria. tzhurzh@postmaster.co.uk
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Let us now have a closer look at the Kharkiv-Belgorod (potential) cross-border region as a case study of Ukrainian-Russian cross-border cooperation. Not only is the case of Kharkiv-Belgorod special because of the historical and cultural specificity of the region, which provides additional symbolic resources for its “reinvention” as a borderland (this will be discussed in the last section of the paper); it also represents an interesting combination of (remaining) cultural closeness and (growing) social and economic differences between the two bordering territories; significantly, these two administrative units became the initiators of the cross-border cooperation between Ukraine and Russia and see themselves as pioneers whose experience can be used for the other parts of the border.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , June 2004 , pp. 497 - 514
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Copyright © 2004 Association for the Study of Nationalities of Eastern Europe 

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