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It's nice to see the ESA working to help the Russians, I guess they do it mostly for science's sake!

In practice, all national/supranational agencies tend to collaborate to an extent on these things.

Cold war is over.

ESA and RKA cooperate very closely in many areas.

Arianespace is even doing commercial launches of Soyuz rockets from Guiana:

http://www.arianespace.com/launch-services-soyuz/soyuz-intro...

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