RIAC Discussing Great Silk Road Economic Belt

... The Silk Road through the prism of the Eurasian Economic Union, Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRICS. RIAC Program Manager Helena Alekseyenkova spoke on common interests of Russia and China in the economic development, stability and security of Central Asia – the region to be perceived by the concept as a co-development area rather than a transit territory. To this end, the EEU and Great Silk Road seem hardly conflicting, since the former is aimed at institutional and juridical association and the latter provides for creation of transportation and logistical network, economic cooperation and co-development. The debate was attended ...