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The Compass: On The Border: On the Border: Narva

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On the Border: Narva

26/10/2022 GMT

On The Border

BBC World Service - The Compass, On The Border, On the Border: Narva

Tim Marshall on Narva the only EU city to border the Russian Federation

Tim Marshall on Narva where the EU, Europe and Nato meet the Russian Federation. A Russian speaking  city in Estonia with an identity crisis?

Tim Marshall on Narva where The EU, Europe and Nato meet the Russian Federation. It's a city in Estonia where 95% of the population are ethnically Russian. Identity crises are nothing new in Narva which has found itself on the edge of empires, kingdoms and duchies during its long history. Today residents cannot trace family here back further than the second Word War. That is when Stalin deported the locals and replaced them with Russians. Somehow however  the collective memory in Narva, a border town forever on someone else's periphery, has re-asserted itself among the city's population. As a place founded on  trading they remain open to everyone but look to themselves.

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Tim Marshall explores four frontier communities.

Tim Marshall, author of the best-selling ‘Prisoners of Geography’, explores four frontier communities. Some sit on hard borders, others soft; all face challenges. What do Maastricht, Kinshasa, Niagara and Orestiada tell us about managing difference and global relations today?

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