News and events

2011-06-30
An annual meeting of the Joint Russia - EU Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation was held in Brussels on 29 June 2011. The Russian delegation was led by Deputy Minister of Science and...
2011-06-30
A meeting of Russian and EU non-proliferation experts was held on 28-29 June in Moscow. The delegations were led by Director of the Department for security affaires and disarmament of the Russian Fore...
2011-06-30
On June 30, 2011 within the framework of the Russia-EU political dialogue Mr. Mikhail PETRAKOV, Director of the 1st Department for CIS countries of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, held expert...
2011-06-29
The Fourth Joint seminar of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation and of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) was held in Brussels on 28 June 2011. Dr. Evgheni Velikhov, Secretar...
2011-06-29
On June 27, 2011 the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Union Ambassador Vladimir Chizhov spoke at a round table entitled “The peace process and the role of key regiona...
2011-06-29
On 27-28 June 2011 Victor Ivanov, Chairman of the Russian State Anti-Drug Committee, Director of the Federal Service for Narcotics Traffic Control, took part in the Conference on the Implementation of...
2011-06-27
The third meeting of Senior Officials of the Russia-EU visa dialogue to elaborate a list of Common Steps towards visa-free short-term travel of Russian and EU citizens was held on 27 June 2011 in Mosc...
2011-06-27
On 24 June 2011 Hamburg hosted a meeting of the parliamentary «European Club» devoted to Russian-German relations in the context of Russia-EU cooperation and to the prospects of creating a common Euro...
2011-06-24
On 22 June 2011 the second round of negotiations on updating of the Russia-EU Visa Facilitation Agreement, signed on 25 May 2006, took place in Brussels. The Russian delegation was headed by Mr. Alex...
2011-06-24
A Bureau meeting of the Russia-EU Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (PCC) took place in Hamburg on 23 June 2011. The participants discussed preparations for the 14th PCC meeting in Warsaw, as well ...
2011-06-23
On 22 June in Moscow Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met Ambassadors of the 27 EU Member States and the Head of the European Union Delegation to Russia. Development of Russia-EU cooperation in...
2011-06-23
Consultations between Russia and the EU on UN issues (CONUN) took place on 21 June 2011 in Brussels. The Russian delegation was headed by Deputy Director of the Department of International Organisatio...
2011-06-13
Consultations between Russia and the EU on OSCE and Council of Europe issues (COSCE) took place on the 10 June 2011 in Brussels. The Russian side was represented by Deputy Directors of the Department...
2011-06-10
Particular attention at the meeting was paid to trade and economic cooperation, ways to further develop the Partnership for Modernisation concept, and work on a new Russia-EU framework agreement. V...
2011-06-02
On 30 May 2011 First Deputy Prime-Minister of the Russian Government Igor Shuvalov met in Brussels with the EU Commissioner for Trade Karel De Gucht and Director General SANCO Paola Testori-Coggi. The...
2011-06-01
A telephone conversation took place on May 30 between State Secretary and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Grigory Karasin and European Union Special Representative for Cen...
2011-06-01
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko received on May 30 the Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the Russian Federation, Fernando Valenzuela. During their conversation they di...