UKR    RUS

The main directions of work in this area include:

• research of the interstate political relations both on double-side, and on a multilateral basis within the framework of existing and created organizations of international cooperation;
• study of a geopolitical and international measurement of the Ukrainian-Russian relations in a context of newly created geopolitical outline;
• definition of a spectrum of compatibility and differences of national interests of Ukraine both Russian Federation in a regional and continental context;
• analysis of external policy of Russian Federation, dynamics of modifications and strategic perspectives of direction of external policy of Russia;
• watching and study of possible paths of slacking of existing and latent zones of voltage in the political relations of Ukraine and Russian Federation;
• development of the approaches on maintenance of national interests of Ukraine in the plan of the political relations with Russian Federation.

The important direction of researches is the policy of Ukraine and Russia in a problem of creation of a broad scaled system of collective safety, analysis new geopolitical реалий, analysis of activity both perspectives of the statement of Ukraine and Russian Federation on international arena.

The research of a problem “National interests of Ukraine in a context of the future geopolitical outline: calls and possibilities of interaction” is begun within the framework of the project "Украина-2010". The scheduled cooperation in the joint research project with Russian institute of strategic researches is designed for a perspective.

The department prepares analytical materials on problems of the political relations of Ukraine and Russian Federation, publication in the “Strategic panorama” magazine, other issuings and mass media.