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I will speak about the situation in Armenia. On September 3, 2013 at the meeting with President Putin in Moscow, our President Serzh Sargsyan announced that Armenia would join the custom union. This statement echoed all over the world : in the evening, all leading information agencies and the media - BBC, Euronews and the Wall Street Journal were discussing it; they concluded that Russia had put pressure on Armenia.
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130898
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"European integration has progressively moved forward through crisis." "Europe always emerges stronger after a crisis." "Without previous crises, the European Union would not have reached the advanced stage it is at today." Across EU history we have heard such slogans from European heads of state or government, EU officials, and scholars too. They tend to sing the 'Europe moves forward through crisis' refrain almost in tune whenever the next EU challenge comes along. The chorus has swelled to new volumes with the onset of the European sovereign debt crisis.
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130899
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2014.
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It so happens that we are witnesses to the great geopolitical changes, where one political and economic system is replacing another, where the boundaries of political regions and alliances are shifting, and where the system of international relations is institutionalizing, integrating and transforming. A key characteristic that defines the development vectors of countries in the post- Soviet space is the search by newly independent states for an attractive integration nucleus. On the whole, from all indications, the process of the formation of a more or less stable system of foreign political ties between the post-Soviet states is complete. This accounts for the prevalence of the selective integration vector, namely, the fact that collaboration along the lines of the Customs Union and the EU has taken center stage.
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130894
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2014.
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ONLY YEARS LATER does it become evident to politicians and scholars at home and abroad that the fragmentation of historical Russia and the concomitant threat of disintegration facing one of the world's backbone civilization alliances that have been around for several centuries in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia was not a local development of the 90s of the last century, not the collapse of a state that was shortlived by historical standards and known as the Soviet Union, but only the beginning of an extremely dangerous tectonic process of the remaking of the world order.
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127008
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2013.
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Twenty years after it was established, Russia's post-Soviet political system is still experiencing problems. The system is subject to such disorder and dysfunction that even the most loyal government official cannot help but notice. Russia's political system does not ensure that the objectives for which it was designed can be accomplished. The system's capacity to accumulate resources of various types (material, ideological, and human) and to distribute them is weak and continues to deteriorate, while the system's expenses are exorbitant. Moreover, it is becoming increasingly difficult to control the political system. Public trust in the government and other political structures is very low and the relatively high ratings of individual politicians cannot make up for it. The very same ratings, which in essence form the only bastion of the regime, face the risk of a sudden collapse.
We have almost forgotten that politics should have a value component (the fascination with perestroika proved to be short-lived). The absence of value guidelines beyond accounts of benefits and costs turns politics into a nasty parody of itself and deprives it of power and functionality.
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130895
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2014.
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THE QUESTIONS of European integration and the development of the European Union intersect. Currently, the Eurasian thrust is being developed vigorously. Ukraine, like other post-Soviet countries, is one of the objects of these big politics of influence. Russia's trouble is that it took long to act. The situation we see in Ukraine is the result of the fact that for many years Ukraine was unattractive for Russia. Russia was itself very weak and did not have the appropriate resources and capabilities. It itself needed to hold on. During this time, Ukraine was flooded by European and American foundations and entities with multi-million dollar grants. A pro-European and a pro-American lobby have been formed, and their choice is already predetermined.
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130896
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2014.
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I WOULD LIKE to point to three recent geopolitical trends which are part of European integration. The first of them is decreasing population strength, a demographic trend which betrayed itself after the 1990s in all East European, especially the Baltic, countries: all of them are steadily losing the younger population groups. Second, there are strong and strengthening interest groups oriented at certain regions: in the Baltic countries, for example, the groups oriented at Scandinavian countries oppose those looking at Brussels and Germany yet their control over corresponding countries is partial. New players on the East European scene, China in the first place, are responsible for the third trend caused by Eurasian integration. Belarus is one of the best examples: it is a member of the Customs Union with Russia and of many other integration structures inside the Union State of Russia and Belarus.
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130900
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2014.
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Azerbaijan's possible membership in the custom union remains on the agenda; it was discussed in August 2013 when Vladimir Putin visited our country. People understand this as a choice between Europe and Russia. Europe means economic performances, those who support the custom union have nothing to say to counter criticism of economic indices.
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