International Journal on Minority and Group Rights. Том 10. 2003. С. 203-220
The article is devoted to the areas and the most important directions of Russian-GCC economic cooperation. Today most of the GCC countries are increasing their spending, providing debt finance and the strategic location of the GCC can be leveraged as a launch pad for securing business in the surrounding market so that part of the world should be looked at as a 250 million-strong consumer market. Russia has a great deal of centers of excel- lence, natural resources, intellectual capital, human resources, and so forth. And that can certainly be leveraged for tapping into these opportunities available in the region.