Katri Pynnöniemi, M. Soc. Sci., Researcher
at the FIIA Research Programme “Russia in the Regional and Global
Context” has successfully defended her PhD thesis New Road, New Life, New Russia: international transport corridors at the conjunction of geography and politics at Tampere University on 31 May 2008.

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