

Member of European Parliament, the first inhabitant of Europe, which in addition to our citizens has been in low Earth orbit, the Czech Vladimir Remek, the during opening of the Exhibition in the European Parliament, devoted to the 50 th anniversary of Gagarin's flight was interviewed for the site of P & S (www.ruseu.ru), in which he congratulated all with Space day.


Russia is one of the EU’s key partners. Usually, in this context we mean by this status the importance of Russia as a market for EU exports and as a supplier of oil and natural gas to Europe. P&S met , Ambassador of Austria to Russia to find out her point of view.



On the eve of the next presidential elections that are to be held on the November 10, P&S met with the Ambassador of Republic of Moldova in Russia. Before launching his diplomatic career, Mr. Negutsa was the Head of his country’s parliamentary delegation to the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) and Co-Chair of the Joint Interparliamentary Commission on Cooperation between the Russian Federal Assembly and Moldovan Parliament.

Following Gyorgy Gillian’s recent appointment as Ambassador to the Russian Federation, P&S thought it necessary to meet with him to discuss the priorities in the Russian-Hungarian partnership and Budapest’s views concerning the Russian-EU relations.

In Europe inter-regional summits of such level are viewed as an effective mechanism of building economic and cultural bridges. This will be the first time the Forum of regions will have been held on the territory of a country outside the European Union. Several large cities were eager to host the Forum, and it was Perm that won the competition. The international conference The Regions of Europe – Development without Boundaries, which is the title of the Perm Forum of Regions, will take place on October 20-21.

Arkady Arianoff answering the questions of P&S