Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday expressed bitterness over the European Union's visa and energy policies to Russia on the 30th EU-Russia summit in Brussels.

"I expect that we can achieve progress in resolving the visa issue," Putin told European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso at the summit meeting.

"We don't want to make the situation any tense here, but we are all doing specific work," Putin said.

Russia has been lobbying the EU to give its citizens visa free policy for a long time, but it was objected by some EU member states, for fear of surge on illegal immigrants and criminals.

"I have a long list of countries that enjoy a visa-free regime with the EU. It includes Venezuela, Guatemala, Honduras, Mauritius, Mexico. You name it. Forty countries located thousands of kilometers away from the EU," he said.

"Russia and EU have a trade turnover of almost 400 billion U.S. dollars, And the lack of freedom in contacts between our people is a factor that hinders the development of our economic ties, and we must understand that," said Putin, "I hope that our work in this area will also move ahead without any politicization."

On the last EU-Russia summit in St. Petersburg in June, Putin urged all EU member states to tear down their strict entry requirements for Russians, and said Russia will do the same in return.

The EU side tried to play down their differences on this issue. "Our economies are strongly linked: 45 percent of Russia's exports go to the EU, while 35 percent of Russia's imports come from the EU," said Van Rompuy on the joint press conference following the summit, "We are neighbors on our continent. More than 5 million Schengen visas were issued in 2011 in Russia."

He said the EU and Russia must work together to guarantee security and stability on the European continent, to tackle global challenges and governance issues, and to promote economic growth.

The energy issue was also on the top agenda of this summit, but conflicts are still there.

Russia is the EU's most important single supplier of energy products, accounting for 29 percents of EU consumption of oil and gas. In 2011, 79 percent of Russia's exports to the EU consisted of crude oil, oil products and natural gas. But the EU insisted that based on EU antitrust rules, the Russian energy companies should not access to the construction of all gas pipelines to European countries.

On the summit, Russia stick to its request to exempt its Nord Stream and South Stream gas pipelines from EU rules granting competitors access to the infrastructure.

"Of course, the EU can take any decisions, but as I already said at our meeting in St. Petersburg and I will say it again here, we are stunned, putting it lightly, by the fact that this decision is given retroactive force," said Putin in his speech to Van Rompuy and Barroso.

"We believe that this decision is absolutely wrong, I will go even further - it is 'uncivilized'. If you approve a document, it should apply to all deals closed thereafter," he said, "And if you approve a document and then apply it to everything that happened before, it only causes confusion and undermines trust in joint work."

Putin said Russia and the EU should find an acceptable and mutually beneficial solution, based on the fundamental interest in developing the EU-Russia relations.

On Friday's summit, the EU and Russia expressed a willingness to continue their efforts in finding a peaceful political solution on Syria.

The two sides also reaffirmed their commitment to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a joint statement by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and EU foreign policy Catharine Ashton on the Middle East Peace Process, which strongly opposed Israeli plans to expand settlements in the West Bank.