"Region-building": the specifics of the russian regional identity policy
Journal: Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta
Year: 2020

This article is devoted to the study of the regional identity policy in post-Soviet Russia based on the concept of "region-building" by the Norwegian political scientist Iver Neumann. Traditional concepts explained the existence of a region mainly in terms of cultural, linguistic, socio-economic, and other similarities, emphasizing the isolation of the region with the existing distribution of political forces and clearly established leadership. However, along with this understanding of region mo