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Creating this sub-site, we mean to attract the attention of interested scholars and experts in the field to the issues of super-regional relevance, namely, those shaped geographically by border territories of Russia, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan. One may call this inter-sate entity as Greater Altai, due obvious historical, cultural, geographical similarities and intersections, but this is not sole approach and terming, which, in its side, follows by different considerations with regard of this area geopolitics, etc. Some authors, referring to it, use such construct label as Altai Mountain region, which appears as not completely adequate, because the most part of Russian Altai region (not Altai Republic) is actually steppe. But there are no terminology confusions/differences at the bottom, - the core/scope of the problem is the prospects of huge inter-state border area, crucial for the future of the entire Asia. Below we publish electronic version of the paper of Chinese research tandem - Liu Janfu and Gu Jiayu, that was presented at recent conference in Altai (PRC). By doing this, we expect to stimulate theoretical/applied discussions, focussed on the main trends and events in the heart of Greater Central Asia. |