The main topics of the forthcoming visit to the Russian Federation, Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert fico will be energy and military-technical cooperation (MTC), says a senior researcher at the Institute of Slavic studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences Pyotr Iskenderov. first it was claimed that fico will arrive in the capital of Russia on a working visit on June 2. As expected, in the Russian capital, He will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of the government Dmitry Medvedev. "the story is Not about the Protocol visit. The story is about the desire of the Prime Minister of Slovakia to develop previous consensus and give the Russian-Slovak cooperation a new impetus for the future given the strategic nature ", - said Iskenderov. review expert, the main theme of negotiations of the Slovak Prime Minister in the capital of Russia, no doubt, will be a gas issue. "Slovakia because of its dependence on supplies from Russia is very concerned about the current situation on the European gas market and the pressure that the European Commission has on European countries to force them to curtail cooperation with Russia in this sphere ", - He said. Iskenderov reminded that Bratislava has recently put forward a new initiative on the construction of a regional gas pipeline EastRing with input from the Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Not excluded, and other countries in order to connect this infrastructure to the future "Turkish stream" and consistently receive gas from Russia and after 2019, when obliged to stop gas transit through Ukraine. "in addition, Slovakia has the task of modernization of NPP, those blocks that the European Union asked in a persistent form to close by 2017. Since these units were built with assistance from Russia, according to Russian samples, there is a key role required to perform the Russian Atomstroyexport. Then again, it needed a fresh intergovernmental agreement to divest the European Commission the possibility to rip these projects ", - said the expert. He highlighted that another important question for Bratislava - modernization of the Slovak military power. "Military-technical area was a key to Russia's cooperation with a unified Czechoslovakia, and currently facing Slovakia face a choice - either go back to cooperating with Russia, or to expend significant funds on a fresh system," Isgandarov said. according to him, modernization is required, for example, Slovak radar systems and conduct it without the participation of the Russian Federation will be very costly. "in Slovakia, it is estimated that if this happens without the participation of Russia, it would have cost hundreds of millions, if Not billions, of euros. But the cooperation with Russia in military-technical sphere is under threat again due to pressure from the EU and the sanctions war, Brussels has announced Moscow ", - said the expert. it is possible that negotiations on the fico in the Russian capital will be affected and the topic of the forthcoming at the end of June EU summit, which has the ability to be made the decision to cancel, extend or tougher sanctions against Russia. "It is clear that the situation in Europe, for example, there exists a discipline, most likely, will Not enable individual countries to veto anti-Russian decisions. However, Slovakia and other countries, such As Greece, Hungary, completely have the opportunity to make a campsite, which will be able to influence key European countries - Germany, France, " believes Iskenderov. "so, we can talk about How establishing closer bilateral cooperation of Slovakia with Russia, and Thus that Slovakia could play role of such a centre within the EU, which will bring together countries interested in development of trade-economic cooperation with Russia do Not approve of the anti-Russian course. In my opinion, of Slovakia, there may have a key place due to economic factors and the fact that cooperation with Russia depends the solution of many key state issues, " He added. the specialist reminded, because this is the Second visit by fico in Russia for a short time: Slovak Prime Minister Not so long ago came to the capital of Russia at the festive event on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the end of world war II in the European Union. "That trip showed that Slovak Prime Minister holds an objective balanced position in terms of relations with Russia, the role of Russia in solving economic issues in the continent. Currently, in my opinion, fico will try to give a financial and economic basis of that understanding which he had with the leadership of Russia in the last few years, " Isgandarov said. at the same time He showed that such a position the Slovak premiere finds understanding at in Bratislava. "It's no secret that He is forced to fight those political circles in the country headed by a President (Andrew) Pussy, trying to focus only on Brussels and Washington," - said the expert.