Tag: East of the Ural

China’s ‘Strategic Border’ Already Well Inside Russia’s Formal One, Buryat Scholar Says

August 12, 2014

Staunton, August 12 – As a result of globalization, political and geographical borders “are losing their importance,” a Buryat anthropologist says, while “strategic borders,” those reflecting where a country has projected its economic and cultural influence, are becoming ever more important. With respect to China and Russia east of the Urals, Sayana Namsarayeva says, China’s […]