... Academic Director of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club and RIAC Member.
Closed-door discussion allowed Russian and Armenian experts to frankly exchange views on challenges and prospects for trade and economic cooperation both among the EAEU member states and with partners in Eurasia. Sergey Chernyshev, Assistant to the Eurasian Economic Commission Trade Minister, Ekaterina Mayorova, Director of Department of Trade Negotiations of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development, Ashot Tavadyan,...
With everybody concerned about the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, what really bothers Bishkek?
Seemingly, the relations between Russia and Kyrgyzstan have not changed since the commencement of Russia’s special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine. Kyrgyzstan continues to emphasize the importance of its strategic alliance with Russia, whereas the Russian leadership accentuates ...
... open and inclusive, have a variable geometry and a huge potential for further development, coming from life. The SCO, BRICS and EAEU are vivid embodiments of this trend. They oppose the cumbersome military-political alliances inherited from the past, with ... ... line with the proverbial “Thucydides' trap”. In particular, we are talking about the double containment of the U.S./West - Russia and China - through the creation of the Ukrainian crisis and the problem of Taiwan.
With regard to Russia, the current ...
... of Moscow’s formal allies in the CSTO and the Eurasian Economic Union amid the current conditions raises questions in Russia.
Among its opponents, it raises hopes that the presence of these associations is no longer an advantage, but a problem for Russia’s external and defence policy. We have seen examples when inpidual CSTO or EAEU countries have been less hesitant, if not outright disloyal, in fulfilling the requirements of the United States in matters related to the economic war against Russia. It also cannot be ignored that Moscow’s allies, through their inconsistent behaviour,...
... fundamental being the 21
st
century-focused Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance as well as the Contract on Allied Interaction. Tajikistan is part to most integrations in the post-Soviet space, where Russia is a member, except for the EAEU. Russia and Tajikistan are building up their trade turnover that, according to official data, grew by 50% in the first six months of 2022. Russia has also taken several steps towards bolstering cooperation in Tajikistan’s industrial, agrarian, cultural,...
... Domestic demand cannot replace international customers, and it will take time and effort to find new partners in “non-Western” markets.
Adaptation to the new conditions has already begun. In the near future, one can expect some businesses to move from Russia to other EAEU countries (primarily Kazakhstan. For example, the Ural motorcycle plant targeting primarily consumers in the United States is planning to move to Kazakhstan because of the difficulties with the supply of components and a ban on the import of equipment ...
... trade and investment spheres, active competition with neighbors in the markets of third countries, etc. Of course, multilateral economic projects continued: In 2015, the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) began to operate. However, the importance of the EAEU for Russia remained very limited—the share of the member countries of this organization accounts for less than 10 percent of the total volume of Russian foreign trade (the share of the EU in Germany's foreign trade is almost 60 percent).
Although the EAEU,...
... will have to re-evaluate their cooperation and integration achievements already in terms of how they help or hinder the operation of the common market in the face of economic warfare from the West and the potentially growing importance of China for the Russian economy and, in its wake, other economies of the Eurasian space. The EAEU countries are not striving to make their association a conductor for a new one-sided dependence, in any case, for them it will be a rational policy to increase autonomy in the world economy. At the same time, a number of issues have already become ...
... down to the common soldier.
Florin Pasatoiu, Cristian Nitoiu:
Kazakhstan: from the Games of Thrones to the Jewel in the String of Pearls
III. Restriction of Turkish economic penetration and control into the Armenian Republic
. Conversely, the role of Russia and the EAEU in the economic life of Armenia should be enhanced, with the aim of promoting economic growth and opportunity, as envisioned in Point I. Naturally, Armenia and Russia should both be interested in Yerevan normalizing relations with Turkey and Azerbaijan,...
... Administration (IRICA), Iran exported over $420.823 million worth of commodities to the EAEU members in this period, 37 per cent more than the figure for the same period in 2020. During these five months of 2021, the top destinations for Iranian exports to the EAEU
were
:
Russian Federation ($222.743 million),
Armenia ($99.683 million),
Kazakhstan ($63.677 million),
Kyrgyzstan ($26.981 million),
Belarus ($7.738 million).
This volume of trade was achieved at a time when the United States withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive ...