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Bilateral relations have always been of tremendous significance to Kazakhstan and Russia, and they always will be. In a sense, they are more important than a multi-party integration. Our relations had existed before the establishment of the Customs Union and will continue.
By the end of 2013, the key participants in the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan had largely clarified their positions. The meeting of the Supreme Economic Council held in December 2013 in Moscow had an important significance as it set the limits of possible integration, specifically with regard to endorsing roadmaps for Armenia and Kyrgyzstan. The very fact of adoption of this approach implied that the plan for the Union's rapid expansion was already on the formalization track, and that the potential members need time to complete membership procedures. This makes the Customs Union similar to the European Union whose establishment envisioned approximation of the member-states' economic parameters. It also means that a politically motivated rapid expansion is not possible.
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Now that the conflict in Ukraine has entered a somewhat less acute phase, a major global conflict - between Russia and the West - is coming to the fore. The main question now is not how and when this conflict will end and who will be the winner, but what Russia will be like after its confrontation with the West is over. What policy will it conduct? Will it be able to use the energy of this crisis to power its own development? The latter is especially important since Russia is not satisfied with the overall results of its development over the last 25 years, when it has been following in the footsteps of the West, borrowing its models and concepts and trying to adapt them to its own realities.
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