DIFFICULTIES OF STRENGTHENING BILATERAL RELATIONS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND MEXICO The second decade of the XXI century gave everyone clear awareness that the world order is going to change significantly. <...> Economic crisis, political volatility, social insecurity and even the climate changes – all that influence the lives of each person of the human being. <...> But in this article I would like to draw special attention to the shifts of targets on the economic arena, on how the priorities varied under the «wind of changes». <...> Initially, it was supposed that the multipolar world could ease and balance the relations between the highly developed countries (USA, EU, Japan, China and others) and the «laggards» (the 3rd World countries). <...> At the same time, the countries that usually were considered to be developing, or even weakly developed, now are gaining the momentum and achieve high levels of economic growth rates. <...> The region of Latin America for a long while was considered to be the «back yard» of the United States of America with its natural resources, huge areas and cheap labor force. <...> From the beginning of the XXI century, a lot of countries of the continent decided to spin out of that control and complete influence. <...> It`s not that easy to do, especially for Mexico which is the member of the North-American Free Trade Agreement. <...> Yet after 20 years of existence, we can judge weather it promoted the economies or aggravated the gulf between the rich and the poor. <...> Jorge Cantaneda, the Ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, defines the current geopolitical situation of his country very accurate: «The heart of Mexico is in Latin America, but its purse, its thoughts and the 10th part of the population – in the United States»1. <...> Statistics proves, that the USA are still the main economic and trade partner. <...> Mexico is known as a country rich with gas and petroleum, quite developed industrial pronow is about US $ 1283.72 billion3, which is the 15th economy in the World GDP Ranking 2015. <...> According to the World Bank Data, the GDP of Mexico increased 2.5 times since 2001 and 1 Jorge G. Castaсeda, Hйctor Aguilar Camнn. <...> CD 81 ирУ·ОВП˚ ˝НУМУПЛНЛ, № 6, 2015 The last years the country is trying to launch bridges with other <...>