Русско-англо-русский юридический словарь

We are still bound by the closest ties to our nearest neighbours: ties of friendship, common culture, mutual interest and economic benefit. (Evening Standard)

A fixed exchange rate is a country's exchange rate regime under which the government or central bank ties the official exchange rate to another country's currency or to the price of gold. (Investopedia)

A community is a small or large social unit (a group of living things) that has something in common, such as norms, religion, values, or identity. Communities often share a sense of place that is situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, town, or neighborhood) or in virtual space through communication platforms. [...] Although communities are usually small relative to personal social ties (micro-level), "community" may also refer to large group affiliations (or macro-level), such as national communities, international communities, and virtual communities. (Wikipedia)

And the second thing is that already today foreign economic ties - or rather the volume of foreign economic ties - between Russia and Europe is very high - they account for more than one third. (BBC News)