Supported by the European Commission and the Russian presidential administration and managed by the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), the EU-Russia Forum is an established platform for dialogue and political interaction between the European Union and Russia. It recently launched a new ’Trendmonitor’ series, which analyzes Russian and European public opinion on various aspects of EU-Russia relations. The first Trendmonitor, which was released in February 2011 on the basis of studies conducted by the Levada Center in Russia and the Forsa Institute in Germany, looked at how Russians and Germans see the “partnership for modernization” launched by the two countries in 2008. Alexander Rahr, director of the EU-Russia forum and of the Russia/Eurasia program at DGAP, discussed the main results of these studies with Modern Russia.