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Introduction

In the course of research the following activities were held:

• 7 semi-structured interviews with people experienced in border-crossing via the checkpoint studied;

• 3 semi-structured interviews with 4 experts, possessing expertise in the sphere of checkpoint's impact upon the local community;

• content analysis of digital news agencies' postings having to do with the checkpoint studied;

• analysis of the legislation concerning Russian-Estonian border-crossing points.

Alongside with the activities mentioned, it was planned to hold a qualitative questionnaire survey among the people crossing the border at the checkpoint in question, as well as expert interviews with representatives of the border guard service and customs. Unfortunately, the Pskov Regional Federal Security Service Border Guard Administration refused to give permission to conduct these activities.

The research conducted resulted in obtaining a number of various points of view on the checkpoint studied, namely:

• what the checkpoint should be like from the point of view of the Russian legislation;

• how do the people crossing via the checkpoint perceive it;

• how does the local community hosting the checkpoint evaluate it;

• what messages do mass media post on the checkpoint, i.e. on the other hand, what can a person who has never been to the checkpoint potentially know about it, given that he/she follows the context of the regional events.
  

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