Peculiarities of contemporary foreign economic relations of Russia with nordic countries (on the example of Finland)
The article is devoted to foreign economic relations of Russia with Nordic countries based on research of cross-border cooperation between the Russian Federation and Finland. In the author’s view, anti-Russia sanctions may give additional impetus to a search for new forms and mechanisms of such relations. The article shows that at the present stage regional factors of international economic cooperation are often more important than global integration processes. It concludes that it is necessary to strengthen economic, political, regional and cultural ties by developing cross-border cooperation between the two countries.