The EU policy with respect to Russia and other CIS countries will not change as long as political elites are not aware of the priority of national interests over the interests of overseas partners, according to the authors of the report of the Russian Institute for strategic studies on the subject " EU Policy regarding the post-Soviet countries in the context of Eurasian integration ". Western countries since March 2014 several times already imposed penalties because Russia's position on Ukraine. The last case of the use of such practices were the limits imposed in March 2015, when expanded sanctions list of the USA. in response, Moscow has imposed anti-sanctions and has stated many times that is not a party to domestic conflict and is interested in Ukraine overcame political and economic crisis. In the capital of Russia agitate all external actors to influence Kiev for the execution of the Minsk agreements to resolve the situation in the East of the country. "The EU will need to compromise their requirements and ambitions, will be counted when the harm from the sanctions policy toward Russia