2010 will be the year of Russia in France, and of France in Russia. It will certainly merit an outburst of new books on this great country, with which we are nurturing ever-closer relations, all the more so as we are half way through the term of the current Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev. For the moment, however, political or geopolitical works remain scarce. The realities we need to examine closely seem to be refracted through the prism of history, culture, society and Russia’s relations with the ‘near abroad’ and Europe, which remain the big questions for today and tomorrow.