What will be the future of the Eurasian Economic Union in the background of sporadically manifested reactions by the Presidents of Belarus and Kazakhstan? By the establishment of the EaEU, in general, what issue did the Russian President Vladimir Putin solve”, Aravot.am addressed this question to the famous Russian publicist and political analyst, Andrei Piontkovsky.
“The Eurasian Union represents not a significant structure. The establishment of the EaEU was a PR for Putin, it was an idea of own geopolitical suffice,” I am not just a President of the Russian Federation, but I am the small emperor of a small empire…”.
Russian publicist and political analyst Andrei Piontkovsky.
The same Lukashenko and Nazarbayev are well aware of the imperialistic complexes of the Russian elite. They have to reckon with it, but, on the other hand, they get use of it, especially Lukashenko. I, in general, consider him to be one of the brilliant figures in the post-Soviet area. In the future history textbooks of Belarus, he will be remembered as the father of the independence of Belarus. I assure you, if it were someone else, Moscow would have finished with it long ago. Russia had other plans for Belarus in terms of turning it into a subject of Russia,” said our interlocutor. Andrei Piontkovsky then talked about Nazarbayev’s policy. “What did he get the country? By 90 percent of the Russian population in northern Kazakhstan. It was a very unstable situation and it was necessary to cringe to Moscow to the maximum. But Nazarbayev acted differently. He was the author of all Eurasian projects, each year he was coming and saying to these Eurasian projects, let’s fulfil this Eurasian project… Buy along with it, he moved the capital to the north, and inhabited the north of the country with the Kazakh population, in other words, he changed the demographic explosive picture of the country and solved his problems”.
Emma GABRIELYAN
