Russia’s Relations with the CIS Countries: Outlook for 2020

... policies, analyzed here in the medium-term perspective for the political, economic, military and humanitarian areas. Photo: Flickr / K.Evchenko Dmitry Trenin: Russia and CIS countries: the relations getting mature The political reintegration of the CIS appears utopian, since the “back to the USSR” process, i.e. return to a united state, will not become a reality in any form. There is no going back. There is no chance that, in the foreseeable future, the Eurasian Union will resemble a federation or a super-state. Neither Kazakhstan nor Belarus, and particularly not their political and economic elites, will cede formal independence to a successor of the USSR. On the other hand, the Eurasian Union as a ...