President Vladimir Putin said that positive relations between Russia and Azerbaijan are a factor of geopolitical stability in the Caucasus. \"We seek an find new and effective patterns of cooperation, and use more, fully bilateral and integration processes in the post-Soviet space,\" Putin said at a ceremony to kick off the Year of Azerbaijan in Russia at the Heydar Aliyev Palace in Baku. \"All of us are directly interested in preserving the common humanitarian space and in broadening cultural contacts, youth exchanges, and exchanges in science and education,\" Putin said. This is the target of the agreement on humanitarian cooperation between countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, signed in Kazan, the Russian president said. (Interfax)