The European Union can and must see Russia as a “big Norway,” Mikhail Krotov, secretary-general of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), told RBC on Monday.Russia was a country rich in natural resources and capable of cooperating with the EU “in a special regime, in the light of its interests,” he said.Norway, outside the EU on reasons of principle, had built a “special relationship” with the overcrowded EU, poor in natural resources, Krotov said, noting that “Russians should learn from Norwegians.”