abstract: Until 1991 ties between entities located on either side of the Russian-Polish border were virtually non-existent.There were, however, favourable physical, geographical, economic, social, and ekistical conditions for the development of a cross-border region.Since the early 1990s, cooperation between administrative units and municipalities, businesses, and non-governmental organisations has been developing on an institutional basis.Euroregions and cross-border cooperation programmes have become ma
journal: Baltic Region