gross regional product and differentiation of development

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How did the economic development of Russia’s western border regions compare to that of Ukraine’s eastern border regions during the pre-conflict period, as indicated by gross regional product and differentiation of development?

[Владимир Сергеевич Кривошлыков]

The level of economic development of the western regions of Russia significantly exceeded the level of development of the eastern border regions of Ukraine, as shown by the gross regional product. That is, they lived richer in Russia, and poorer in Ukraine.
In most regions of the world, a less economically developed country tends to cooperate with a more economically developed country. This was the case with Ukraine. The enterprises of eastern Ukraine produced products for the Russian markets. But western Ukraine sought cooperation with the European Union.
That is, the two poles of economic growth: Russia and the European Union, as it were, "tore" Ukraine into two parts.

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