The EU Russia borderland : new contexts for regional co operation On the edge of neighbourhood: regional dimensions of the EU Russia interface Heikki Eskelinen Ilkka Liikanen and James Wesley Scott Northwest Russia: regional contexts of political integration. Federal reforms interregional relations and political integration in Northwest Russia Elena Belokurova and Maria Nozhenko Regional community building and cross border interaction Elena Belokurova and Maria Nozhenko Processes and actors of cross border interaction. Geopolitics and the market: borderland economies in the making Heikki Eskelinen The West and co operation with the West in late and post Soviet ethnic mobilization in Russian Karelia Ilkka Liikanen Crossing the borders of Finnish and Northwest Russian labour markets Pertti Koistinen and Oxana Krutova Re connecting territorialities spatial planning co operation between Eastern Finnish and Russian subnational governments Matti Fritsch Russias oil and gas infrastructure: new routes new actors Dmitry Zimin Civil society organizations as drivers of cross border interaction: on whose terms for which purpose Jussi Laine and Andrey Demidov Northwest Russia: an arena of socio cultural transformation. Company towns on the border: The post Soviet transformation of Svetogorsk and Kostomuksha Dmitry Zimin Juha Kotilainen and Evgenia Prokhorova Repositioning a border town: Sortavala Alexander Izotov Informal transitions: Northwest Russian youth between Westernization and Soviet legacies Pirjo Jukarainen Karelia: a Finnish Russian borderland on the edge of neighbourhood Vladimir Kolossov and James Wesley Scott