The building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian FederationMOSCOW, Mar 5Moscow expects that the European Commission will continue to transfer payments to Russian participants in cross-border cooperation programs, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. The Russian diplomatic department noted that they learned from a press release from the European Commission about the decision to suspend cooperation with Russia under the seven Russia-Poland cross-border cooperation programs, «Russia-Lithuania», «Russia-Latvia», «Russia-Estonia», «Russia-South-Eastern Finland», «Karelia» and «Kolarctic», as well as the multilateral cooperation program «Interreg. Baltic Sea Region». The Russian side has not yet received any official notification of this.All Russophobic incidents abroad are carefully recorded, the Foreign Ministry said. «We proceed from the fact that the European Commission has in mind only its own contribution to the budgets of programs, while the transfer of their Russian part to Russian participants should be continued. We will carefully analyze the consequences of such a decision of the European Commission and take necessary steps to protect the interests of the Russian participants,” the message on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry says. It is also noted that regional cooperation has traditionally been considered by both Russia and the EU member states as a depoliticized and mutually beneficial instrument of interaction that helps build trust and develop contacts between people. «Our neighbors' refusal of cross-border cooperation is capable of breaking thousands of threads of contacts at the regional and local levels, which have been developed for many years and are the living fabric of our relations,» the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized. stu» of the European Union. «They are implemented on the principles of equality and joint funding with Russia. Our country's contribution to current programs is more than 90 million euros, it is fully transferred to the budgets of the programs,» the Russian Foreign Ministry noted. >
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