The paper purports to analyze the dynamics of Russia-Turkey relations through the prism of cooperation and rivalry patterns in the Wider Black Sea Region. It aims at fi nding out cooperation and rivalry areas as well as evaluating the prospects for political, economic and energy transportation cooperation in the Wider Black Sea Region. The New Regionalism approach forms the theoretical and methodological basis for the research. In accordance with the approach regions are seen as actors per se being internally or externally constructed. The authors suppose that preserving the logic of pragmatism and fragmentation the two states will ensure positive dynamics in the relations.