... position in this process.
A “Multi-Vector” Policy as Credo?
REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
Nikolay Mezhevich:
Post-election Period in Belarus: Economy
Determines Politics
In the
joint statement
following their meeting in Moscow, the presidents of Russia and Belarus confirmed their commitment to the strategic priority of EEU integration with trade associations in the East and the West, including with the European Union. The strategic positions of Moscow and Minsk are similar; however, given the current foreign policy landscape, the approaches of the two allies are fundamentally different.
The Belarusian leadership regards the thaw in its relationship ...
On November 3, 2015, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov, IMEMO Director Academician Alexander Dynkin and Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine Fyodor Lukyanov, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, visited the Embassy of France to meet with Head of Continental Europe Department at French Foreign Ministry Florence Mangin for ...
... reached in December 2010 on establishing the Eurasian Economic Union (EEC) in the Common Economic Space of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia, Alexander Lukashenko together with the Russian and Kazakh leaders welcomed the new integration project. But after the ... ... regulation in these areas under bilateral negotiations
incurred Belarusian authorities’ displeasure
.
Shortly after the EEU officially launched on January 1, 2015, Belarus
made it clear
that it reserved the right to leave the Union if agreements ...
... make use of geopolitical reasons to prevent the withdrawal of those countries from Russia’s sphere of influence. Armenia became the first country, where the security... ...
On 3 September, President Serzh Sargsyan announced Armenia’s acceding to the EEU, which implied that the country refused to initial the Association Agreement, which... ... blockade from Europe’s last closed border, which is also the customs border of the European Union, as well as the exclusion of the country from regional energy and communication...
... the 20th Annual International Conference of the Baltic Forum “The US, the EU and Russia – the New Reality”, 12 September 2015, Riga, Latvia
Speech at the 20th... ... rapprochement with the rest of Europe. Documents were signed on cooperation with the European Union and NATO and Russia joined the Council of Europe. In the early 21st century... ... Moscow should invest considerable political capital in developing the mechanisms of EEU, SCO and other multilateral structures of Greater Eurasia. This is especially true...
... Dr. Matthias Rössler. The theme of this year’s forum is “
The Eurasian Economic Union: Current State and Prospects for Development
”.
The German side’s interest in forum stems from the deep crisis in relations between the European Union and the Russian Federation as a result of the civil war in Ukraine and the need to reassess the conceptual foundations for working together and search for new cooperation formats. A number of Forum participants believe that one such format could be within the ...
