Russian Federation's foreign affairs minister Serghei Lavrov is to pay a visit to Romania today. This is part of a tour including Pristina and Belgrade. The Russian official is to have meetings with Romanian foreign affairs minister Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu and PM Calin Popescu Tariceanu. Lavrov is not going to meet Romanian president Traian Basescu, as today the latter is paying official visit to Slovakia. In tomorrow's paper you can read an interview with the Russian official on hot issues of Romanian-Russian relations, issues that are not on the official agenda of meetings with Romanian officials: Romania's heritage, Romanian lands lost after 1944, geopolitical, geostrategic and geoeconomical matters. "Romania in International Politics" group for debate has arranged today's debate "Russia and the European Union � A New Approach". Alexei Gromiko, executive president of the Institute for Europe in the Russian Academy of Science, and Professor Mihail E. Ionescu, president of the Institute for Political and Defense Studies and Military History, are to deliver speeches in the opening. (D.E.)