Kotova L.A., Mitrofanova I.V. About the strategy of geopolitical and geoeconomic interregional interaction in the region “Donbass”

Kotova Larisa Anatolyevna
Lecturer, Department of Management and Economics, Branch of the Southern Federal University (Novoshakhtinsk)
kotova_7777@mail.ru
40 let Oktyabrya St., 2, 346900 Novoshakhtinsk, Russian Federation

Mitrofanova Inna Vasilyevna
Doctor of Science (Economics), Leading Scientific Researcher of the Institute of the Social, Economic and Humanitarian Researches of the South Scientific Center of RAS, Prosp. Chekhova, 41, 344006 Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation; Professor, Department of World and Regional Economy, Volgograd State University
mitrofanova@volsu.ru, interec@volsu.ru
Prosp. Universitetsky, 100, 400062 Volgograd, Russian Federation

Abstract.
In article the political and economic innovations connected with the transformation of the region “Donbass” in the context of decrease of the risks caused by a military-political and economic conflict in Ukraine are investigated. On the basis of creative synthesis of theoretical and practical approaches of studying the evolution of nonlinear economic systems and the formation of megaregions, and also the analysis of the geopolitical situation developing on the world scene between Russia, the USA and China provisions are developed according to which the region “Donbass” can be considered as “a critical point” of the European regionalization. Authors believe that the important strategic prospect of border cooperation of Russia and Ukraine is connected with the formation of a cross-border agglomeration “Nizhnedonbassky” and “Verkhnedonbassky” the creation of which consists in realization of the linking function between Nizhnedonbassky, Volga region, Moscow and Petersburg transport corridors. One of the condition of social and economic stabilization in the subjects of the foreign Caspian and the Black Sea zones is the realization of geotransit capacity of the region “Donbass” with the formation of a geotransit architecture of its economy. Strategically realization of the processes of an international city formation is possible either on the basis of federal principles or by a geopolitical split of the territory of the region “Donbass” on the line Kharkov – Donetsk – Lugansk with a bent to Russia.
Key words: geopolitics, political and economic innovations, scenarios of interregional interaction, depressive territories, crisis of the European regionalization, geotransit economic space, cross-border agglomerative corridor, gradoformirovaniye, city – region, region “Donbass”, Caspian and Black Sea foreign territories.

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