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Gazprom and SOCAR to split EU gas market as partners
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Gazprom and SOCAR to split EU gas market as partners
People there have little understanding that Moscow has a multi-vector policy
Armenia has to prove that it is ready to start serious reforms in order to receive additional financial aid from the European Union, expert of the EU-sponsored Eastern Partnership project Amanda Paul is quoted as saying.
Myasnikovich: Eurasian Union needs joint payment systemThe Eurasian Economic Union should move to greater use of national currencies in calculations and quickly create a joint payment system, the Prime Minister of Belarus Mikhail …
Russian policy in the South Caucasus is impossible without Azerbaijan, an expert of the Russian Council on International Affairs, associate professor of post-Soviet countries studies of the RSUH Alexander Gushchin believes. The expert …
Armenia to start paying EEU fees in 2016Armenia will begin to pay dues at the Eurasian Economic Union already in 2016, the Deputy Minister of Finance of Armenia, Suren Karajan said.The membership fee will amount to 1.13% of the approved …
Economic and political aspects of Yerevan joining the Eurasian Union
It needs to join the SCO first
The Armenian Constitutional Court has ruled that the agreement concerning the country's entrance in the Eurasian Union is legal, the court's chief is quoted as saying. The document is now set to be ratified by Armenian lawmakers.
The second meeting of the "troika" of the main opposition parties in Yerevan and the internal political processes which followed it, and also the forthcoming integration of Armenia into the Eurasian Union were the focus of attention of the Armenian print media last week. The Armenian press paid attention to parliamentary discussions of the draft of the state budget for 2015, to Russian-Armenian relations, and also to the fate of the Nairit factory.
Russia and Abkhazia continue to discuss the draft treaty on alliance and integration, involving the creation of a common security and defense sphere, as well as cooperation of the two countries in the economic and social spheres. The …
Opposition takes the fight beyond parliament
say Russian economists
Says Lev Dzugayev
Minsk is hosting the Council of Heads of CIS Countries today. Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus will conclude the formation of the Eurasian Economic Union, which will launched on January 1, 2015. Armenia and possibly Kyrgyzstan plan to join it. Sessions of the EurAsEC Interstate Council will be held within the framework of the CIS Council to disband the EurAsEC and the Higher Eurasian Economic Council.
A speech by the President of Russia Vladimir Putin at the “Russia Calling!” Investment Forum organised by VTB Capital. The head of state speaks about the principles of building the Eurasian Union, priorities of foreign economic policy, development of the internal market and sanctions. According to the President, the final goal is “dynamic development of the entire country.”
The Russian president has outlined foreign economic priorities
Arkady Dvorkovich: “The process of establishing the Eurasian Union is going on successfully”
Yuri Krupnov, the chairman of the Monitoring Council of the Institute for Demography, Migration and Regional Development, speaks about the need to restore “the vitamin bridge” in the post-Soviet area and develop trade ties with the South Caucasus countries; it could be called practical cooperation inside the Eurasian Union.
Practical cooperation in the system of Eurasian integration will be possible