Brusylovska, Olha I.2018-04-242018-04-242015Warsaw East European Reviewhttps://dspace.onu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/13776The goal of this paper is to provide a complex analysis of the cross-border cooperation of the EU with Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine in order to present a set of ideas and activities which turned the EU into the key actor of the territorial and cross-border cooperation. Among aims of the article are to analyze 1) aims of the national policy in the field of CBC; 2) involvement of border regions of Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine in CBC; 3) example of EUBAM as EU mission experience in the sphere of CBC. Network methodology is perspective in the study of cooperation such unequal in strength, capabilities and standards actors as the EU and post-Soviet countries. There are problems of EU integration that influences on CBC: lack of judicial independence, political inertia, brain drain. Any significant improvement in the current situation is impossible without a better planning, identification of the most effective instruments, and better-financial support from EU.othercross-border cooperationthe EUMoldovaRussiaUkraineArticle