Russia between East and West: geopolitical preferences overview [Электронный ресурс] / T. Gerasimenko, N. Streneva // Analysis of international relations 2021 Methods and models of regional developmentтезисы доклада
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Аннотация:Abstract: The paper is devoted to the views regarding Russia's place in the global geo-cultural
space. It’s important in terms of geopolitical and geo- economic preferences. The arguments of
«Westerners» and «Eurasians», as well as those who consider Russia to be a special, unique macroregion are analyzed. The author's point of view on this issue is expressed. The paper also gives some
results of sociological surveys which one of the authors held at the middle of 2000 and in 2020. The
surveys were devoted to the self-identification of the population in the Orenburg region. The
situation has changed. It depends on new geopolitical and geo-economic vectors of Russian foreign
policy. The number of people who consider Russia a European country has decreased, while the
number of adherents of Eurasianism (and the country's uniqueness identity) has increased. Russia
represents a special world in the system of cultural macro-regionalization. This country has a
unique territory, integrity, unity of historical destinies, and this should be considered when choosing
the ways of its further development. The situation is alike on a long stretch of the both sides of the
state border. Trans-border strip has mixed population, similar cultural landscapes, uniform
planning of settlements, language, mentality. Regional and state self-identification of the population
is either ambiguous or not clearly expressed.