44 Berliner Osteuropa InfoForum Monitoring regional differences in Northwest Russia*

• Main Authors: Riitta Kosonen, Tuuli Juurikkala
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Murmansk region; the Karelian Republic; the Leningrad; Murmansk; karelia*; karelian; Northwest Russia
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.537.485; http://www.oei.fu-berlin.de/media/publikationen/boi/boi_20/12_forum_kosonen_juurikkala.pdf

Russian regions neighbour Finland from the northernmost tip of the country all the way to the Baltics. Finland’s Ac-tion Plan for Cooperation with Neighbouring Areas aims at building sustainable grounds for cross-border economic cooperation, supporting also administrative reforms undertaken in Russia after the collapse of communism. Within this framework, financed by the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, a joint Finnish-Russian project on economic monitoring of Northwest Russia was undertaken in December 2000. The regions monitored include the