RIAC Policy Brief #15
The development of Eurasian integration is increasingly becoming the subject of various assessments and discussions. The recent publication of Report No. 43 by the Eurasian Development Bank (titled Eurasian Economic Integration), which focuses on the insufficient level ...
... provide objective and systematized information about the EAEU not only for citizens of the member states of the Union, but also for experts from foreign countries who are interested in developing contacts with the EAEU.
RIAC has been working on a study of Eurasian integration since 2015. Understanding the need to promote and share experience in the area of teaching Eurasian integration, RIAC launched an initiative to prepare studying and teaching materials on Eurasian integration. Marina Lapenko, Associate ...
On April 2, 2018, the VI International Meeting of Intellectuals was held in Bishkek (Kyrgyz Republic), organized by the International Institute for the Development of Scientific Cooperation, the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian International Affairs Council, the SEREP Research Institute, the National Institute for Strategic Studies of the Kyrgyz Republic . The topic of the meeting of intellectuals was "The experience of living together in Eurasia...
According to the new findings of the ongoing research project, Asian investors continue to increase direct investments in the EAEU. During the monitoring period (2008–2016), FDI stock originating from 12 Asian countries (China, Japan, Turkey, India, Israel, Mongolia, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Iran, Singapore, and Vietnam) has increased from $32 billion in 2008 to $75.6 billion in the beginning of 2017.
China continues to expand its economic presence in EAEU countries and other CIS...
... “EDB Integration Barometer”, the Eurasian Economic Union continues to enjoy significant trust and support from between 50% and 83% of the population of its five member states, as well as Tajikistan (69%). At the same time, positive attitudes towards Eurasian integration have been declining gradually, both in the EAEU countries and beyond.
Over the EAEU’s first years, from 2015 to 2017, the most significant decline in public support for membership of the Union was recorded in Russia (from 78% to ...
On November 7–12 the press center of
Eurasian Economic Commission
(EEC) was hosting an EEC and Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC)
Schoo
l «EAEU: Integration for All. Outcomes and Perspectives until 2025».
Andrey Kortunov
, Director General, RIAC, and
Ivan Timofeev
, Director of Programs, RIAC, made speeches at t
he opening of the School and the following press-conference.
Andrey Kortunov mentioned in his speech that Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) treaty was signed...
The EEU is carrying on with its day-to-day work to tune up the mechanisms of economic integration
The Eurasian Economic Union – today’s framework for the processes of Eurasian integration – has graduated from a period of upbeat progress and achievement status reports to a phase of regrets. Those regrets were expressed in speeches by the presidents of all EEU member states at a
meeting
of the Supreme Eurasian ...
Eurasianism is a sea comprised of many rivers that flow into it.
And no sea can subsist without its flows
Chingiz Aitmatov. (1928-2008), renowned Soviet and Kyrgyz writer
The EEU is a one-year old economic integration project built on the idea of increasing the economic development of the region through free movement of goods, services, human resources and capital primarily in northern Eurasia. It is clear that an external observer, periodically following political and socio-economic developments...
MOSCOW – More than 18 months after former President Viktor Yanukovych was driven from power (and into exile), the crisis in Ukraine is at a stalemate. Crimea has been reabsorbed by Russia (in what many consider an annexation); much of eastern Ukraine is held by pro-Russia rebels; and relations between the West and Russia are more tense than at any time since the early days of the Cold War.
But can anyone claim an advantage? Those who wanted to see Ukraine anchored in the West, or imagined that...
... undisguised gloating over the European Union’s current economic and financial difficulties comes off as just as inappropriate, not to mention the endless prophecies of an imminent collapse of the entire “European project.”
What are the real prospects of Eurasian integration?
Integration processes in the Eurasian space are caused by objective and long-term factors. But shouldn’t the dramatic worsening of relations between Russia and the West have a powerful impact on these processes?
Firstly, the experience ...