Political Engagement of the EU and Russia at the Present Stage

Dr. M.V. Danilina, Associate Professor, Risk Analysis and Economic Security Department, FSBEI HPE, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia, marinadanilina2014@yandex.ru

key words

Russian Federation, EU, Ukraine, sanctions, interaction, crisis

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The relationship of the Russian Federation and the European Union, for most of the past decade and a half of the 21 century, which took place in a very positive way in most areas of a broad spectrum of interactions, for the first time faced with a serious test in the context of the large-scale military and the political crisis in Ukraine, erupted in late November 2013 and continuing to this day. The latter is a kind of Rubicon, after the passage of which the Russian-European relations, which developed before in the whole steadily and rapidly, although not without problems, began to slide into the deep corkscrew mutual sanctions, and, as a consequence, a sharp slowdown in economic development . The purpose of this article is to review the state of relations between the EU and Russia at the present stage, particularly in the pre-crisis and crisis periods still ongoing, as well as determination of the prospects for their further development.

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