| ID | 079141 |
| Title Proper | Public opinion |
| Other Title Information | where it stands on Russia's foreign and international business policies in the Asia-Pacific Region |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Kozlov, Leonid |
| Publication | 2007. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Specific regional identity of Russians living in Russian Far Eastern areas is a hard fact of Russian social reality. Alongside natural reasons inherent in their makeup, such as the high costs of traveling westward to anywhere in Russia or going back, the region's deep involvement in the life of Northeast Asia is a major factor that makes the social psychology of its residents increasingly more different from that of Russians living in the country's European part. It is commonplace for many Russians living in the Far East, especially for the younger generation, to travel frequently to China and other NEA countries, without once going to their country's western parts.
Ongoing contacts with foreigners, for the most part in China, Japan, and South Korea, and livelihoods and daily comforts that depend on political and economic links with those countries must, in our view, give Far Easterners their own sense of the role Russia is playing in today's world. It is our purpose here to give an overview of the geopolitical ideas residents of the country's Far Eastern fringes have formed about Russia's role and place in the Asia-Pacific Region (APR).
To build an empirical framework for this article, this author used the statistics contained in the questionnaires he received from 1,283 respondents in six areas of the Far East under the presidential grant, MK-987.2005.6, to support young Russian scholars. Circulating questionnaires was the first step of the study, which also included interviews with experts and press content analysis. |
| `In' analytical Note | Far Eastern Affairs Vol. 35, No.3; 73-85 |
| Journal Source | Far Eastern Affairs Vol. 35, No.3; 73-85 |
| Key Words | Northeast Asia ; Asia-Pacific Region |