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An intensive movement of people, which is typical in areas with strong tourism industry, is perceived to provide numerous positive externalities with regards to the diversity of cultures, ideas, and knowledge. Border regions act as natural contact zones experiencing the influx of tourists across borders. The borderland is expected to benefit from their geolocation and intensive cross-border cooperation, acting as testing grounds for external innovations. The article iS designed to test the interdependence between the tourism industry and innovation activity in the borderland. The study focuses on the western border regions of Russia, which is a highly divergent area in terms of socio-economic development and experiences challenging times in the context of geo-economic turbulence after 2014. By using the statistical research method, the study develops on evaluating the dynamics of indicators for tourism industry development and innovation activity. The eight-year period of 2012-2019 is applied for taking into account the lag in innovation performance resulting from the positive externalities of tourism. Results show that the growth in tourism industry and innovation activity of found in regions with intensive public expenditure on large-scale infrastructural projects.

Humanitarian workers operate in complex environments with various challenges and demanding working conditions. These challenges put aid workers in a range of risks and under the pressure. However, human resources are crucial for success of humanitarian operations in general. At the same time, each humanitarian operation is reliant on logistics and logistics activities are always connected with logistic staff. Understanding what motivates logisticians to join the humanitarian sector is essential information for humanitarian organizations and for recruiters within. Also, knowing which factors influence motivation and job satisfaction of humanitarian logisticians could help the organizations to struggle with the extremely turnover they have to face. Up to this moment, needed skills and the performance of humanitarian logisticians were examined. Also, the motivators of humanitarian workers are covered in previous research. Therefore, the additional aim of this research is to extend the knowledge about the human resources in humanitarian sector as well.

Economic clustering becomes the important factor of regional economic development. Through the means of system analysis and classification we provide the classification aimed to uncover the mechanisms of the formation and development of the clusters according to the specifics of the leading firms. As is shown in the article with the example of Rostov region through the method of statistic observation, the South of Russia demonstrate the broad variety of existing and forming economic clusters, which belong to various categories of the given classification. So that the process of regional management aimed to support cluster development is to provide the permanent monitoring of the large enterprises

The article is devoted to the urgent problems of innovation development and innovation security of border regions, focusing on the regions of Western Russia. The purpose of the paper is to trace the interrelations between economic, innovation and educational clustering in the situation of geo-economic turbulence and instability. These inter-organizational interactions are viewed to be one of the factors to increase regional innovation security. The research objective is to highlight the integrative role of the education system for the innovation economy of the regions. The comparative analysis of the experience of the self-sustained South-West (Rostov) region and the deeply integrated into European space North-West (Kaliningrad) one enables the researchers to identify the main factors of reaching innovation security via self-organizing cluster mechanisms. The results and the findings of the study (including the positive clustering experience) are to be used in the decision-making within regional governance.