title: Russian Borderlands: A Sociological Retrospective of Interaction Between Border Guards and Local Population (1960–2025)
abstract: In this article, based on the analysis of domestic scientific publications, memoirs and recollections published in the public domain, as well as some of the author’s empirical data, an attempt was made to identify the socio-cultural role and specifics of managing the border region of Russia through the prism of interaction between border services and the local population. It is noted that in the USSR, the state’s involvement of the local population in protecting the state border not only increas
journal: Rossiâ reformiruûŝaâsâ