Half of Russia's trade turnover is with the EU, and EU countries are the main sources of foreign investment in the Russian economy despite the crisis, Russia's permanent envoy to the EU Vladimir Chizhov told reporters before Diplomats' Day, which is marked on Feb. 10.
"Russian-EU relations can't stagnate because the Russian economy and the EU economy are closely connected in the modern global world, in the modern global economy," Chizhov said.
"Oil and gas pipelines are not the only things that connect us. There is industrial cooperation and technical cooperation. Our partners have recently made a proposal, which we back to declare year 2014 a year of science and technology in Russian-EU relations," the diplomat said.
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