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Annotation

The work analyses current trends and prospects of developments in Russia's cooperation with key European security institutions in the whole variety of its aspects. It suggests the criterias of evaluation of a new quality of the relations between Russia, the EU and NATO in security area. The authors suggested that practical results of cooperation remain limited without a definition of clear guidelines and mechanisms of the relations. The work defines the main motives and conditions of interaction between Russia, the EU and NATO in security area as well as constraints of their cooperation. The work also examines Russia's security interests in the context of evolution of the OSCE and building and developing security institutions on post-soviet space. A particular focus is put on development of Russia's foreign policy European priorities mechanism. The work comprises two part and the first one examines key institutional elements of the European security landscape.