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In the article the author analyzes the forms of international cooperation at the regional level in the context of Ukraine's European choice. It is defined the historical lessons of local "brotherly relations" of the Soviet period and given some examples of cooperation among the cities of Donetsk region and the traditional East European countries, for example Bulgaria, and the countries of Scandinavia as a rather new activity of local self-government. Ukrainian central and local authorities continue the international and interstate relations having abandoned the policy of excessive ideologizing and comprehensive control of the Сommunist party, such as obligatory planning of friendly relationships approved at the meeting of the regional party committee, periodical reporting about its fulfillment, approvals of the special list of organizations and establishments allowed to participate in this cooperation, etc. Nowadays international cooperation is filled with a new sense which is based on the standards of humanistic values, the geography of these contacts is being extended. In the article the author gives the examples of border cooperation on creation of the new border region "Donbas" which will finish the formation of euro regions along the frontier of Ukraine, intermunicipal cooperation of the regional association of local governments "Agglomeration "Northern Donbas", regional spatial cooperation on creation of European transport corridors, youth cooperation of students and teachers of Horlivka Institute of Foreign Languages and at large the communities of this miner's city. The positive lesson of the past, which is still working, is the participation of large sections of the public, first of all at the regional level, in the development of these relations. The relations have become really international as all the categories of the population participate in them including schoolchildren and pensioners. Expansion of these contacts develops both across and down that confirms regularity of the world development tendencies in the direction of an all-round integration. ; У контексті європейського вибору України аналізуються форми міжнародного співробітництва, реальні для застосування на регіональному рівні. Визначаються історичні уроки місцевих «побратимських зв'язків» радянського періоду, наводяться конкретні приклади співробітництва міст Донеччини з європейськими країнами, як відносно нового напрямку діяльності органів місцевого самоврядування.