Post Soviet borders : a kaleidoscope of shifting lives and lands Part 1: Dynamics of Bordering in the Post Soviet Space Beate Eschment Ketevan Kutsishvili Sabine von Löwis Dynamics of Bordering in the Post Soviet Space over the Last 30 Years Tatiana Zhurzhenko Between the Opening to the West and the Trauma of Re Bordering: Towards a Genealogy of Post Soviet State Border Studies Stephan Rindlisbacher The Territorial Challenge in the Early Soviet State Johanna Jaschik Machteld Venken Dialoguing Borders in the Post Soviet Space through Citizen Science Ukrainian Borderland Perspectives Part 2: Western part Rita Sanders Within and Across Borders: Trust and Distrust in Russias Exclave of Kaliningrad Mikhail I. Klyuchnikov Simon G. Pavlyuk Nikita L. Turov Transnistria: The Everyday of a De Facto Border Anton Gritsenko Maria Zotova Local Responses to the Contested Border in Crimea Part 3: South Caucasus Nino Aivazhvili Gehne Experiencing the Border Encountering the State: The Ingiloy at the Azerbajani Georgian Borderland Ariane Bachelet Borderisation of South Ossetia: The Perspective of the Border Population Giorgi Cheishvili Connected and Disconnected by the Border: The Shaping of the Turkish Georgian Borderland Part 4: Central Asia Asel Murzakulova Rethinking the Meaning of Neighbourhood: The Transformation of the Fergana Valleys Transborder Infrastructure Saodat Olimova Muzaffar Olimov Integration vs Disintegration: State Borders and Border Conflicts in the Isfara Valley Henryk Alff Post Soviet Decline or China Induced Prosperity Agricultural and Socio Economic Change in the Kazakhstan China Borderlands.