ON THE QUESTION OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION OF RUSSIA’S MINISTRY OF EMERGENCY SITUATIONS IN THE AREA OF CIVIL DEFENCE IN EARLY 21<sup>ST</sup> CENTURY
This article studies and briefly analyses the main directions of EMERCOM of Russia’s international cooperation with the EU in the beginning of the 21st century. The author concludes that the main directions of EMERCOM’s international cooperation with the EU and in the area of civil defense are consistent with the foreign policy interests and national security strategy of the Russian Federation and currently has multi-facet and targeted nature which is beyond possible political differences even under today’s conditions of international regime of the EC sanctions against Russia due to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.