JEL Classification Codes: H12, F02. 1. Introduction At the beginning of the 21st century, the global economy faced a new global problem - unsustainable development caused by emergence of socio-economic crises. This shattered the positions of generally accepted market model of economy which supposes minimization of state interference into socio-economic processes. The global financial crisis that started in 2008 in the USA and transferred to other countries of the world in the following years showed that despite active involvement into integration processes, most countries prefer to solve their socio-economic problems independently. Duration of this crisis shows ineffectiveness of this strategy and need for its correction. Thus, the topicality for study of perspectives and search for possibilities of cooperation of the countries of the world and joint crises fighting in socioeconomic sphere grows. The working hypothesis of this research consists in the fact that Russia and Greece have similar socio-economic problems that cause similar process of corresponding crises due to which it is expedient to unify efforts of both countries for their effective solution. The purpose of the article consists in verification of this hypothesis and determination of the newest scenarios of joint crises fighting in socio-economic sphere of Russia and Greece. 2. Theoretical, Informational and Empirical, and Methodological Grounds of the Research Theoretical and methodological foundations of formation, development, analysis, and regulation of crises in socio-economic sphere are given in materials of such modern authors as (Popkova et al., 2013; Skiter et al., 2015; Kravets et al., 2014 and Dzhandzhugazova et al.. 2015; Thalassinos and Stamatopoulos, 2015). Applied issues of socio-economic crises in Greece and, in particular, fighting the recent global financial crisis, are reflected in works of such scholars as (Petrakos and Psycharis, 2016; Polychronidou et al., 2016; Eibel, 2015; Arghyrou, 2015; Thalassinos et al., 2015; Thalassinos et al., 2014; Thalassinos and Liapis 2014). Practical aspects and Russian peculiarities of distributing and fighting socioeconomic crises are studied in works by (Brauninger, 2014; Izmailova et al., 2016; Senchagov and Mityakov, 2016 and Kobersy et al., 2016). Based on the study of recent publications on the topic of the research, it is possible to conclude that despite the excess of scientific and practical material, articles of most authors contain only separate components of the set problem. At that, possibilities and perspectives of joint crisis fighting in socio-economic sphere of Russia and Greece are omitted, which leaves area for development of corresponding scenarios. For verification of the offered hypothesis, this work uses the method of statistical analysis. The authors study dynamics of socio-economic development of Russia and Greece in 2008-2014 and determine common tendencies and regularities. The indicator of the situation in social sphere is the Quality of Life Index (according to the Economist Intelligence Unit), and the indicator of situation in economic sphere GDP and GDP per capita. 3. Results Let us analyze the situation in socio-economic sphere in Russia and Greece in 20072015 (Table 1). As is seen from Table 1, both studied countries are peculiar for the common problem of reduction of living standards and the problem of economic recession in 20092010, which is caused by crisis in socio-economic sphere. Character and dynamics of the crisis are similar, which is a sign of similarity of the situation in these countries. This is proved by the fact that Russia and Greece are in peripheral zone in the ranking of countries' prosperity (The Legatum Prosperity Index), according to the Legatum Institute for 2015, ranking 58 and 49, accordingly (The Legatum Institute, 2015). This research distinguishes three most perspective directions of fighting crises in socio-economic sphere. …