The author continues discussion around articles by N. Shmelyov and V. Fedorov “Russian realities” and by M. Nosov “Russia between Europe and Asia” (“Contemporary Europe, №3 (55), 2013). Sharing the opinion of Shmelyov and Fedorov, he states that soviet socialist system was destroyed but many of it’s features are present in Russian social and economic system today. By it’s national mentality Russia belongs to West and East which means that it is Eurasia. Modern science and techniques became the real base for formation of future of leading countries though Russia in that sphere seriously lags behind. The author stresses that Russia needs wide cooperation with the West in concrete areas of innovations and new technologies as well as science and technical progress on the whole.