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Astana is hosting the Sixth Forum of European and Asian Media (FEAM) with integration processes on the post-Soviet space as the main topic for discussions. Kazakhstan will see over 250 heads of mass media, observers, politicians, bloggers, experts and analysts from over 15 states of Europe and Asia. Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan are taking part. Alexey Vlasov, Editor-in-Chief of Vestnik Kavkaza, is part of the Russian delegation.
A month ago Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin proposed the idea of establishing the Eurasian Union. In political and expert circles of the former Soviet republics this initiative caused various reactions – from relevance of establishing such union to expressing empire ambitions of Russia. The political scientist, the head of the institute Caucasus Alexander Iskandaryan answers questions by VK on prospects of Armenia’s membership in the Eurasian Union.- What are advantages and disadvantages of Armenia’s membership in this union?
Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev told the Izvestia newspaper that he would want to join the Eurasian Union, a declaration on its formation will be signed by presidents of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan on Friday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Belorussian President Alexander Lukashenko and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev are going to meet in Moscow tomorrow, November 18th, Interfax reports.The parties are going to discuss further steps of integration in the framework of the Eurasian Union promoted by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
If Georgia has no pro-Russian elites, it does not mean they are pro-Western
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Sais Vladimir Yevseyev, the head of the Socio-political Research Center
Tbilisi doesn’t want cooperate with those, who support the initiative on integration of former Soviet space territory
Propaganda myth or political project?
Experts discuss prospects of the Eurasian Union
G20 on Friday named 29 banks so important to the world's financial system that they require more capital and closer surveillance than rivals, plus a detailed plan to allow them to be wound up without taxpayer help if they hit trouble. Grigory Trophimchuk, the vice-president of the Strategic Development Modeling Center, told VK that the situation that the EU finds itself in right now
Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan plan to build a supernational structure- the Eurasian Economic Commission, an analogue of the European Commission. The idea was approved by prime ministers of the three states in Saint-Petersburg on October 19.
Experts comment on the CIS Free Trade Zone
According to Andrei Kazantsev, Euro-Atlantic Security Center expert
The Eurasion Union project is widely discussed outside Russia. Togrul Ismail, member of the Ankara Economy and Technology University, says that the idea is not a new one.
The establishment of a Eurasian Union is a great opportunity for a “restart” of Russian relations with the former Soviet republics, Alexey Vlasov, Director General of the Information and Analytics Center for Socio-Political Processes in Post-Soviet Space and Deputy Dean of the History Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University, says.
Given to Al Jazeera and devoted to 20 anniversary of Azerbaijan’s independence reconstruction
According to the head of the Yerevan Caucasus Institute, Alexander Iskandaryan.
According to Rasim Musabekov, political scientist and deputy of Azerbaijani parliament
US investor George Soros and 95 well-known economists, businessmen and politicians have sent a letter published by The Financial Times, warning Europe against a collapse of the global financial system.
The absence of a common border between Russia and Armenia complicates the integration process, the head of the Caucasus Institute, Alexander Iskanderyan, told VK correspondent.
