Reuters
Oct 4, 2011
Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he wants to bring ex-Soviet states into a “Eurasian Union” in an article which outlined his first foreign policy initiative as he prepares to return to the Kremlin as the country’s next president.
Putin said the new union would build on an existing Customs Union with Belarus and Kazakhstan which from next year will remove all barriers to trade, capital and labour movement between the three countries.
“We are not going to stop there and are setting an ambitious goal — to achieve an even higher integration level in the Eurasian Union,” Putin wrote in an article which will be published in Izvestia newspaper on Oct. 4.
Putin said last month he would run in the March 2012 presidential election and his current public approval ratings show that he is set to win.
Putin’s initiative comes as Russia nears the end of its 18-year-old negotiations to join the World Trade Organization. In the article Putin made no secret of his scepticism about the global trade watchdog.
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It all comes down to which global mafia organization do you wish to belong.
roberth70 Reply:
October 4th, 2011 at 3:53 am
No, it really comes down to which mafia organization has the biggest foot print on the back of your neck. Russia is not the juggernaut that is on this wholesale killing spree throughout the world. It’s the Neocon Zionist controlled US that has us all underfoot. Russia posses no real demention of the present threat that is now being rolled-out by the west.
Putin to the rescue ! I think it’s a good idea for all the nations like Ukraine to build upon. Europe’s in too much trouble right now.
Kazakhstan is the central point of business in Russia-this is the country where everybody is battling for business;everywhere only OILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL and resources
I think the caspian sea resources were the first reson behind the war in Afghanistan
Lots of companies would like to build a pipeline from the Caspian sea through Afghanistan south to export oil,otherwise you have to bow to the czar Putin to get the oil
The europeans do not have so much oil as needed ;so much of the european oil comes either from Russia or from Arab fields