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Interaction of Russia and Turkey in the post-Soviet period: Factors, trends, problems, prospects

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In the post-Soviet period, Turkey (along with Russia) has been a key actor in the geoeconomic and geopolitical architectonics of modern Eurasia. The Russian-Turkish rapprochement is predetermined by a stable set of historical, cultural, demographic, and socioeconomic circumstances. Economic relations with Turkish partners are most typical of coastal regions in the south of Russia adjoining Turkey (Krasnodar krai and Rostov oblast), the country’s leading capital megalopolises, some Turkic regions (Tatarstan, Bashkortostan), and territories that specialize in the production and transportation of energy resources that are exported to Turkey. The further efficient interaction of Russia and Turkey is hindered by not only the remaining foreign-economic contradictions and mental barriers but also by the absence of a thoughtful and mutually acceptable strategy of a joint Russian-Turkish Eurasian future, including that at the regional level.

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  1. North Caucasus Research Institute of Economic and Social Problems, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

    A. G. Druzhinin

  2. Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Çanakkale, Turkey

    A. İbrahimov

  3. Ege University, Izmir, Turkey

    A. Başkan

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Original Russian Text © A.G. Druzhinin, A. brahimov, A. Ba kan, 2014.

The first draft of the paper was published in the journal Izvestiya Russkogo Geograficheskogo Obshchestva, 2013, Vol. 145, No. 5, pp. 78–87. The paper was revised according to the new data.

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Druzhinin, A.G., İbrahimov, A. & Başkan, A. Interaction of Russia and Turkey in the post-Soviet period: Factors, trends, problems, prospects. Reg. Res. Russ. 4, 121–126 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079970514020051

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