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Ideology and Interests in Putin’s Construction of Eurasia

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On 4 October 2011 the then prime minister of Russia, Vladimir Putin, published an article in the newspaper Izvestiya entitled ‘A New Integration Project for Eurasia: A Future which is Being Born Today’. He announced that the Customs Union and the Common Economic Space being created by Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan would be developed into a Eurasian Economic Union. At the same time, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan would join the three original members. He added: ‘We are not stopping at this point and place before ourselves the ambitious task: to go to the next, higher level of integration — a Eurasian Union.’1

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