1. Presently, developing the Arctic Zone has coincided with the world economic trend towards the system crisis caused, in many respects, as President Medvedev said at the XII St.-Petersburg International Economic Forum, by the “economic egotism” and “economic nationalism”, primarily - the USA. Later on, Dmitry Medvedev's speech at the Forum, by the analogy with the meaningful statement by President Putin, was called the "economic Munich”. One may just guess of those geopolitical moves that would accompany the changes in economy, technology and power engineering. Some countries’, regions’ and the industrial companies’ of narrow specialization oil-and-gas foundations of well-being might disappear. The insurance is needed.
2. Now new principles and documents on EU-Russia interrelations are being worked out. Russia justifies its refusal to ratify the EU Energy Charter by the losses in oil-and-gas sector and weak representation in the European nuclear fuel market. And this is when the world is obviously facing kind of nuclear ‘Renaissance’ in power maintenance for various evenings-out of the consequences of the world economic crisis. It is enough to recollect the collective appeals, made by the G8 energy ministers (2006-08), to quickly develop the "peaceful atom”. Probably, the achievements of France in this sphere would be used as a guideline.
3. It is convenient time for new initiatives now. The aggravation in the EU-Russia interrelations on the eve of the Helsinki summit have corrected the balance of all-European issues under the discussion there and the “Northern Dimension” in favor of the regional ones. The EU-Russia-Iceland-Norway meeting put forward the updated program. In 2007, NATO supported the new “Northern Dimension”. In Russia’s relations with Europe, the pattern of bilateral contacts with member-countries would be domineering for some time. The all-European integration might be additionally weakened due to raise of ethnic separatism, hardships in the economy and proactive terrorism. Symptoms of easing – Blocking ‘the EU Constitution’ by some member-states are the symptom of weakening.