... my proposal, I received a significant number of positive feedback from civil society and citizens of the CIS countries. However, top ranking politicians were not ready to thoroughly discuss it at that time”
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. Kazakhstan, neighboring both Russia, Kyrgyzstan and China, which makes it a certain heartland of the EEU, has a special position and stakes in the process.
Nursultan Nazarbayev is currently 76. Any political transition is likely to bring to power new political figure or figures that would be instinctively less integration-oriented than the current President....
... snowballing instability in Afghanistan.
Russia is also Tajikistan's main commercial partner: its share in 2014 trade turnover exceeded 20 percent. The bulk of its budget still comes from remittances sent by Tajiks working in Russia. According to the Russian Central Bank, last year cash transfers
exceeded USD 3.831 billion
.
Tajikistan is also interested in the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), especially after its neighbor Kyrgyzstan jumped on the bandwagon. Dushanbe is heatedly debating the virtues of membership, although the government, pundits and businesses still differ. To get a more detailed view of their expectations and concerns, we met leading Tajik experts – ...
... participants.
For instance, at the impending summit of Eurasian states in Moscow, the focus will be on questions connected with Kyrgyzstan joining the EEU. Bishkek’s ability and desire to resolve all the obstacles to the country moving towards entry into the integration ... ... set deadlines are still in doubt. The problem is not so much the Kyrgyz elite’s desire to receive maximum bonuses from Russia and Kazakhstan on entry into the EEU. The vacillations on the part of Almazbek Atambaev and his circle are largely connected ...
... Russia's attempt to strengthen its influence in the post-Soviet space. Therefore, the issue of Kyrgyzstan’s accession to the EEU remains under debate.
Zamira Muratalieva
,
expert at the Institute of Strategic Analysis and Forecasting at the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University
:
The opponents of Kyrgyzstan’s accession to the EEU perceive this association as a political “alliance of the three dictators” without any economic benefits. But talking about the political unification is quite premature. The EEU country-members do not speak with one voice on international ...
... depending on their location and domestic conditions, but, obviously, the crisis will have a significant impact on the perception of Russia’s role in its nearest neighborhood. In this regard, it is important to understand the effects produced by the Ukrainian ... ... which led to the most devastating social, economic and humanitarian consequences for the country
”. The public debate in Kyrgyzstan, a country that had survived two coups in 2005 and 2010, was focused on discussing the possibility of a repeat such ...
