United Europe and Russia: What ahead?
Considering now, at the end of the first decade of the 21st century, a complex of problems related to Russia's place, role and prospects in the globalizing world economy, we can quite definitely identify a number of objectively existing "knots" of foreign economic cooperation of our country and, accordingly, vectors of its foreign economic policy (And foreign policy in general). One of the most important is today and, undoubtedly, will be such in the long term the European vector of the foreign economic policy of the Russian Federation. At the same time, one can not ignore the important fact that in the current situation we are dealing with Europe, where unification and even integration processes have been realized for a long time (first of all within the framework of the European Union). The jubilee, 25th Russia-EU summit, which took place on May 31-June 1, 2010, confirmed the special significance of effective relations between these partners (although it did not lead to long-awaited results, for example, the signing of the Basic Agreement on Cooperation between Russia and the EU).