Russia as the Eurasian Bridge: Challenges of Russia's Integration into the World Community.

The Russian Federation has a tremendous potential for economic growth but needs a strategy that relies both on a well-thought-out and long-term program of economic development and on a realistic foreign policy Such a strategy must cover Russias economic, technological, industrial transportation, information and international policies, for at least a period of a whole generations lifetime. This paper discusses the Eurasian Bridge Strategy, in which Russia acts as the main facilitator of the economic integration of the Euro-Atlantic and the Asian-Pacific regions.