Last September we went with John O'Loughlin to a field study of the Russian-Ukrainian borderland and interviewed, in particular, the administration heads of two small townships separated only by a railway but now belonging to different states. They have a common railway station, communications, public services, and even a common cemetery. But now local parts of both Russian and Ukrainian industrial plants came to be separated by customs and border guards. I believe that the ideal of a nation-state with strictly defined, symbolized, and sacred borders went out of date. We have to get rid of the demons of nationalism.
Borderlands have to be zones of contact and cooperation.
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