In the article is characterized the multi-vector of the Eurasian integration in the context of global trends of modern development. One of the key directions of cooperation within the framework of Eurasian integration now is the Eurasian Economic Union - «The economic belt of the Silk Road». Such collaboration involves the development of not only the economy or transport, but also a new relationship in various forms of public diplomacy as an important mechanism for the formation of international strategic partnership within the Eurasian space in the long term.

The article is devoted to prospects, which open for participants of the Eurasian Economic Union. The special attention is paid to cooperation at the regional level. The author analyzes economic, cultural, scientific relations of St. Petersburg with the State Parties of the Eurasian Economic Union.

In the article questions of ensuring national security of Russia in the conditions of threats from global information space are considered. The attention to realization of a state policy of the information sovereignty in the conditions of the modern global world is for the first time focused, and also new categories and concepts of information measurement of the sovereignty of Russia are entered.

Since January 1, 2015 on the geopolitical world map there was a new interstate integration organization - the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), uniting Republic of Belarus, Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation. Within a year of EEU I was replenished with two new members: Republics Armenia and Kyrgyzstan. EEU - essentially new object of social and economic researches therefore studying of features of its formation and functioning, and also the place in world process of globalization represents great scientific interest.

The article is devoted to the main aspects of development of the Eurasian Economic Union. Authors concretize that now Eurasian Economic Union is an economic union but it has every chance to become the political union. The attention to obstacles for development of Eurasian Economic Union and to calls which the Eurasian Economic Union puts before the West is paid.

The article is devoted to features of ageing in the emerging economies united under the general name «Emerging Markets». This group of the countries emerged in the XX century and given that their contribution to world economic development constantly increases, authors thought it would be useful to draw attention of readers to this phenomenon, which was in detail discussed by participants of a symposium «Ageing in Emerging Markets», which took place in Oxford in January 2015. Authors hope that materials of this article will be useful to the researchers cooperating with policy makers in the field of ageing and for the professionals working in adjacent areas such as social security, health care, etc., and activists of the nongovernmental organizations, which are engaged in practical activities in the field of ageing.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the possible cooperation between the Eurasian economic union (EAEU) and different countries of the world as China, Egypt, India, Iraq, Japan, New Zealand, Syria, Turkey and others. The authors analyze the possibilities of cooperation of the EAEU with these countries, examine probable profit from the partnership and make a conclusion that the most acceptable form of interaction for today is a free trade zone. Also the authors withdraw, that the participant countries of the Eurasian economic union should pay extra attention to the questions of expanding the EAEU and ensure geopolitical and economic interests of the union.

In the article new economic strategy of China named «One Belt - One Road» is considered. Its purposes are development of northeast regions of China and integration of the adjacent Eurasian states. The author speaks about joining of the projects «One Belt - One Road» and the Eurasian Economic Union as opportunities for all participants and analyzes benefits which it will bring, paying special attention to Russia.

Return of the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol under the sovereignty of the Russian Federation became the major event not only for our country, but also in universal scale. It had essential impact on modern system of the international relations. Considerable changes occurred and in foreign policy of Russia in the former Soviet Union - the region which is permanently playing a key role in system of national priorities of the Russian Federation. In the conditions of opposition of Russia and the countries of the West a number of the States of the region hurried to separate from Moscow or, at least, to take a neutral position on the Ukrainian crisis and «The Crimean question». Other republics rallied with Russia even more closely, giving it the increasing support in the international affairs. In this article the main achievements and miscalculations of domestic diplomacy in the former Soviet Union during its «Post-Crimean» period - in 2014 - the first half of 2015 come to light.

The article says that it is very important to promote the «soft power» of Russia in Central Asia for the development of the Eurasian economic integration. In this regard, the authors demonstrate on some cases that at present soft power plays an important role in the practice of the regional policy of the great powers in the region. The article points out that now Russia has developed and practically controls an extensive system of soft power instruments guaranteeing multilateral cooperation in the social and humanitarian sphere. The authors analyze application of soft power in specific areas and define the shortcomings of Russian soft power that must be addressed for the effective application of this instrument in the world in general and in Central Asia in particular. At the end, some practical conclusions and recommendations are made.

The main trend of modern development of regional integration processes is expansion of their influence by means of creation of free trade zones. Various questions raised by agreements allow speaking about economic interaction, or about political influence. Eurasian Economic Union actively joined the process of creation of free trade zones.

The creation of the EEU can be seen as an important trend for the restoration of centripetal geopolitical characteristics of the Eurasian space. Thanks to the EEU it was reversed a dangerous trend that emerged in the 90s of the twentieth century, by “skimming off” the post-Soviet space by the interested foreign powers in the European Union, USA and China. It was a great danger that Russia would have lost its importance as the center of Eurasia, combining European and Asian Eurasian states. Just Russian geopolitical interests correspond to the idea of Eurasian integration, which creates the conditions for Russia’s positioning as a Central power in Eurasia. It is legitimate to consider the idea of a “Russia as civilization” as a global project, forming a new Russian identity, and thus new prospects of interaction within Eurasian economic Union and in world space. This centripetal tendency of the civilization should be the main ideological impetus for Eurasian policy strategy of the Russian leadership.

The article explains the importance of ideological determination of the Eurasian integration vector. It stresses the necessity for political elites to reject the usage of ethnonationalism as an instrument for mass political mobilization, to get ready for a compromise based on the understanding that regional integration serves the national interests of all its participants.

The article focuses on the problems and prospects of the collaboration between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the Eurasian Economic Union. Present international issues encourage the active collaboration between countries in multiple spheres. Integration unions are logical for they bring mutual economic benefits. Globalization deepens ties between countries, intensifies interdependence and complementarity among them. Even while a crisis occurs in one particular country it may affect the whole world community. Thus countries initiate and strengthen integration, and new strong regional structures are being built to achieve economic and political security with better life conditions. Progressive tendency towards regionalization has a double effect. In one way, it reinforces globalization. In another, it fosters isolation of integration unions from the world market and increases their independence from the external demand. In turn, this allows a higher resistance to emerging crises and economic shocks by creating an «airbag», in a manner of speaking, to protect a particular regional integration union from the global economy. A good example of regional groupings created with this aim in mind is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the Eurasian Economic Union. Joining the regionalization also has a benefit of relative independence from the dominant actors of the world economy and politics, such as the US, the EU, China. Asian countries, and Russia is in some measure among them, have built plenty of integration alliances within the last 60 years. Fairly often a country associates with more than one of such alliances. For instance, Indonesia and Russia are united within APEC, while Indonesia is a member of ASEAN, and Russia is a member of EAEU. Such interactions are deeply intertwining in a sophisticated relation hierarchy in Asia, that brings expenditures. This encourages countries to harmonize trade procedures and laws, that are of vital importance in cooperation between the unions. However both ASEAN and EAEU have a range of controversies between members, that impede further integration, as well as negatively affect relations with external partners. Hence, the perspectives of cooperation between two organizations are limited so far, but there are prospects in ASEANRussia and EAEU-Vietnam cooperation.

This article is devoted to analysis of the current state and prospects of development of the relationships of two integration structures: the Eurasian economic Union (EEU) and the European Union (EU). The article focuses on the evolution of the concept of the Greater Europe; the author analyzes the main stages of development of the bilateral relations of the EU with the countries-members of the EEU. The author notes that in spite of the fact that in the current geopolitical conditions a dialogue between the EU and the EEU is difficult , there is an objective necessity to establish close relations between two blocks due to historical and geographical and the current geopolitical and geo-economic factors. However, nowadays the possibility of the convergence of these two integration projects can be realized within the traditional paradigm of «the Greater Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok», but as a part of the «the Greater Eurasia from Lisbon to Shanghai».

In today’s world the processes of integration of the various countries are of growing importance. Such processes mainly take place in regions, which have shared economic, cultural, ethnic, ideological, religious or linguistic community. Development of integration, as such, without the support of the citizens of the states, which take part in integration is possible only to a certain extent. We can say that each integrative group has its own purpose and ideology.

This article is dedicated to the analyzing of contemporary perspectives of African’ regionalism. The main attention of the study is the importance of cooperation between Africa and Asia at the present stage of development of the system of the International relations. The author offers a comparative analysis of the policies of Japan, China and Korea in the field of international development assistance.

The article attempts to answer, why, though European Union’s experience inspired the founders of the Eurasian Economic Union, which was expected to ease development of relations between the two integration unions, in practice, the EU is very skeptical about both the prospects of the EEU and the prospects of relations between the EU and the EEU. The article demonstrates that institutions and political practices established for the EEU do not only appear to resemble the institutions and practices working in the EU, but institutions and practices of both integration unions are essentially similar. The main reason is that Russian experts in European studies actively participated in working out of the institutional structure and the political practices for the EEU. However, the article concludes that Western elites prefer not to notice the similarities between the EU and the EEU, while underlining differences between them. It is very important for Western elites to demonstrate that institutions and political practices of the EEU and the EU are “almost similar, but not quite”. Thus, it is justified characterizing Western elites’ attitude to the EEU in terms of ‘mimicry’, in the meaning given to that notion in Post-Colonialism in International Relations. The article explains that Western elites do not only demonstrate such kind of attitude to EEU, but almost to all other attempts of regional integration that have ever been undertaken in various parts of the world. The article names such attitude the main obstacle to development of relations between the EU and the EEU, and between the EU and other regional integration unions.

The article considers some aspects of the development of youth scientific - technical cooperation in the states - partners of the Eurasian Economic Union in the long term, as well as the characteristics of the project Eurasian united association «Fab-Labs».