... becoming disenchanted with the EAEU (from 53% to 48% of survey participants). Russian respondents demonstrate little interest with respect to foreign specialists working in the country and to scientific and technological cooperation with countries in the CIS region. There has also been a drop in the level of trust that they feel for China. Finally, EAEU member states, Tajikistan, and Moldova are characterised by phenomenal density of social ties and mutual trust to the neighbouring CIS countries.
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... in such a way as to enable them to resolve the issues of including non-EEU member countries in the economic integration process. This would allow for the development of multi-level integration within the framework of economic interaction between the CIS and the EEU. Reforming the bodies of the CIS Executive Committee will also allow issues of budget optimization to be solved, since maintaining cumbersome governance bodies under the conditions of an economic slowdown is becoming an unbearable burden for most ...
Russia in Eurasia: SWOT Analysis
Russia and Eurasia: Main Trends
The Eurasian vector is one of the key areas of Russian foreign policy today. Partnerships with major Asia-Pacific and South Asian countries, as well as cooperation with the CIS countries, has traditionally been a Russian priority. That priority has become more pronounced in recent years. It is manifested above all in the creation of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), an international association of five former Soviet economies: Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia, and later Armenia and Kyrgyzstan. It is also evident in the growing partnership with Asia-Pacific countries. Russia’s presidency of the Asia-Pacific ...
The meeting of CIS heads of state held in Kazakhstan on 16 October 2015 drew attention with its multilateral format, which has long been the subject of the phrase “either good or nothing.”
In both Russia and other post-Soviet states, the Commonwealth is ...
... Political Scientists held by the North-South Political Science Center, Information and Analysis Center for Socio-Political Processes in the Post-Soviet Space at Moscow State University and Intergovernmental Foundation for Humanitarian Cooperation of CIS Countries.
With the project designed as a discussion platform for exchanges between political scientists, historians, journalists and economists of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) states, the recent conference was made of a series panels, lectures and roundtables focused on unveiling the union's key problems and challenges, as well as outlining schemes for their handling and overall prospects. The participants shared their ...
