Study course “The European Union and the Russian Federation”

The Associate Professor of the Department of World History, Political Studies and International Relations Varvara Inozemtseva read the course “The European Union and the Russian Federation” for the 4^th year Bachelor Degree students.

The aim of the course was to provide the students with comprehensive insight into the historical background, trends, current status, and prospects for the development of the relations between Russia and the European Union.

The goals of the course were to provide the students with the information on the institutional, legal and political framework of the EU-Russian relations; determine the place and role of the EU in the context of the national interests of Russia and Russian priorities in the foreign policy; analyze the development of the relations between Russia and the EU and the main stages of the relations; determine the strategy of Russia, the member states of the EU and the European Union in general in the context of the EU-Russia relations; consider the principal areas for the cooperation between Russia and the EU and the issues of the modern dynamics of the relations between Russia and the EU.

The course included such topics as the collapse of the USSR and the establishment of relations between the EU and the Russian Federation, TACIS, PCA; the EU-Russia relations at the turn of the 21^st century; European neighborhood policy as a factor in the Russian-European relations; Strategic Partnership of the EU and Russia; success and issues of the cooperation between the EU and Russia within the four Common Spaces; relations between the Russian Federation and the European Union after the Ukrainian crisis of 2014.