... countries whose accession was recently put on the “Brussels backburner” once again, could meet better understanding in the EAEU.
So, prospects and horizons are clear, all the “recipes” required are in our hands, it is, as always, a question of political will. We do have it, I would stress with full responsibility. As Russian President Vladimir Putin said, “Greater Eurasia is not an abstract geopolitical scheme, but without any exaggeration, a future-oriented civilisational project” ...
An attempt to infuse the Greater Eurasia vision with additional content will not only help Moscow to engage with other major powers more on its own terms but also ensure that Russia can maximize its impact
Andrey Kortunov:
One More Time on Greater Europe and Greater Eurasia
While Russia’s vision ... ... overwhelmingly hostile. On the other hand, Russia’s failure in 2013 to convince Ukraine to join the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) not only resulted in a full-blown crisis of relations with the West, but also implied that Moscow would have to look beyond ...
... way for Russia to get back to Europe today goes through Asia. If Moscow cannot engage EU in a peer dialogue alone or through EAEU, it has to join a more powerful coalition, which will have more leverage in dealing with Brussels. In other words, the concept of Greater Europe should become and is already becoming for Russia a part of a larger Greater Eurasia concept. The idea of Russia’s pivot to Asia has a long history; they tried to implement it in various periods ...
... already spearheaded by research done at IIASA (Laxenburg, Austria). 3. Negotiations should be conducted not between the EU and Russia, but between Brussels and the Eurasian Economic Commission. 4. In the geo-economic sense, this common economic space is ... ... spite of the possible compromises, the interests of modernization, industrialization and integration of the economies of the EAEU Member-States should be a priorit for the EEC. 6. The Lisbon to Vladivostok concept should be seen not as an alternative, but rather as part of the Greater Eurasian Partnership idea.June 2, 2016 at the plenary session of the SPIEF, Vladimir Putin and Nurzultan Nazarbayev officially ...
