title: Living in the Borderland: How Residents of Russian Border Towns Interpret Security Problems
abstract: The article proposes looking at the problem of state border security through the eyes of Russian border-town residents. Based on field research, the article examines what residents perceive to be threats and how they understand protections against those threats. The conceptual framework of the analysis is securitization theory, proposed in the late 1990s by members of the Copenhagen school of international studies and critically reconsidered in the last two decades. The article aims to identify 
journal: Laboratorium Russian Review of Social Research