The Institute may carry out investigations on the following themes:

1. Change in the political situation in Europe and prospects of the disarmament process.

2. The evolution of foreign and defence policies in Russia.

3. The contemporary condition and major trends within the CIS.

4. The prospects and problems of the OSCE process.

5. New emerging structures of Pan-European architecture.

6. The present situation and trends of European integration, development of the European Union.

7. The transformation of the military-political alliances (NATO, WEU) and the prospects for building new European security.

8. Russia and NATO's development.

9. The prospects of the "Partnership for Peace" program.

10. The trends of the military-economic integration in Western Europe.

11. The future of the basic trends of the economic development in Europe.

12. The political, economic, social situation in the Mediterranean-Black Sea Region, in its subregions and separate states.

13. The Russian energy sector: current trends and prospects for cooperation with the West.

14. The present situation and prospects for the development of commercial and economic relations between Russia and the European Union.

15. The present situation and prospects of the Russian-German economic cooperation.

16. East German experience in the privatization of state enteprises.

17. Tax incentives for business under a well developed market economy based on the FRG experience.

18. The scientific and technical cooperation between Russia and the EU.

19. The place and role of Russia in the economy of Europe and the World.

20. The prospects of the economic development and correlation between the economic power of Russia and that of the developed Western countries (up to 2010).

21. Interstate and ethnopolitical conflicts on the territory of the former Soviet Union.

22. Problems of informatics in European countries.