The digest  «The Arctic: A Space of Cooperation and Common Security» has been drafted on the basis of materials of a workshop organized by the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences as part of the Euroatlantic Security Initiative project. It highlights various aspects of international cooperation and security maintenance in the Arctic area, including the problems of legislative regulation, natural resources, strategic stability and conventional security, navigation, international fishery regulations, etc. This body of collected materials is one more entry in a series of publications promoted by the Institute and the EASI in Russia. The EASI project is the brainchild of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and it is implemented by a group of distinguished politicians and experts from Russia, the U.S. and Europe for the purposes of drafting proposals on a new security structure in the Euroatlantic space. The IMEMO is the main project partner in Russia. All the participants in the project view the solution to the current problems in the context of common threats rather than through the prism of relations between Russia and the West. An approach of this kind makes it possible to promulgate the Russian vision of common European security on a broader scale. The EASI project and Russia’s active engagement in it have been deemed rational by the President and the Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation.