With the European Union to its West and China’s New Silk Road to its East, EEU member countries are gradually starting to voice their disillusionment of having joined the bloc. It appears that almost 25 years after the demise of the Soviet Union the Kremlin still has not learnt that countries simply do not like to be coerced into closed-member blocs and alliances.
The full article can be read here.
The article also appeared in Radio Free Europe’s Morning Vertical daily Russia brief of 27 May.
The article was also featured in the Kyiv Post (Ukraine) and in Tengrinews (Kazakhstan).
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