Cracks are beginning to show in Vladimir Putin’s grand project to form a Eurasian union to rival the EU as Russia’s partners have so far balked at joining Moscow’s trade war with the west.
When the presidents of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan gathered in May to sign the Eurasian Economic Union into existence, it was hailed as an “epochal” moment with geostrategic implications.
“Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan are moving towards a completely new level of co-operation,” Mr Putin said at a ceremony in Astana’s Palace of Independence, Kazakhstan.
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