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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
GLOBALIZATION BRINGS FORTH new mechanisms to regulate foreign policy and international relations while placing special demands upon security and innovative mechanisms of interaction between states. The emergence of new actors on the world political arena has urged the states to update their national programs for establishing mutually beneficial cooperation with newly formed institutions.
One example of such cooperation is cooperation between Russia and the European Union confirmed by comprehensive basic agreements, the development of the Partnership for Modernization program, and cooperation along the migration track. The latter is only becoming a strategic objective but one can already talk about likely successful steps in this area. The agenda of today's dimension of Russo-European relations calls for the possibility of establishing a visa-free travel across Russia and the European Union. This is a vital question and an interesting subject for exchanging views not only among experts and scholars but also among business leaders and ordinary people who want to travel across the territory of the European Union without visa barriers. This article will attempt to trace back the phases of the forming the prerequisites for a visa-free regime, examine two diametrically opposed views on this initiative and consider possible ways for realizing the idea of a visa-free dialogue, which was for the first time made public by Vladimir Putin in 2002.
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