A N A LY S I S PEACE AND SECURITY THE EU ARCTIC POLICY AND PERSPECTIVES OF RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA Nurlan Aliyev December 2020 The Russian flag-planting at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean in 2007 symbolically could be marked as a turning point in international atten­tion to the Arctic. Since then EU also has systematically prepared, issued and reviewed not only its Arctic policy, but also its relations with Russia. The EU still has difficulties, particularly with Russia, but also with some of other Arctic states in the region. Nevertheless, there are also possibilities for cooperation, despite fact that after 2014 the relations have deteriorated between the EU and Russia. Increasing of Russia’s power projection in the Arctic and also tensions between Mos­cow and Brussels in other in­ternational issues challenged cooperation between them in the region. In this respect, this research examines coopera­tion possibilities, challenges and compares the EU and Russia’s Arctic policies.