Regionalization and typology of border regions and their development differentiation. The article focuses on problems of current tendencies differentiating between borderland and inland, and among border regions themselves.
First, the borderland - inland differences are still limited, but they will be probable deepening in future. Second, the differences among border regions are important both in intensity of settlement and in economic level, and in current development dynamics.
Key factors of regional differentiation appear to be macro - locational position and inherited economic specialization.