MOSCOW, April 12. /TASS/. Russia favors maintaining and deepening of cooperation in space with foreign countries, including Western nations, Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko said.

"Today, when global politics and economy are unstable, I would like to note that particularly space remains one of few platforms where Russia’s cooperation with other countries, including Western ones, continues. Our country favors maintaining and deepening it, because this cooperation unites forward-thinking people," she wrote on her blog published on the upper house’s website on the occasion of Cosmonautics Day on Wednesday.

Having no space for moment-based solutions, this issue is "essential for the whole humanity," Matviyenko added.