Moldova President Hopes to Cancel EU Association Agreement

Moldova’s President said Tuesday he hoped the country’s association agreement with the European Union will be cancelled if his party obtains a parliamentary majority, paving the way for an alliance with Moscow.

Treaty on Armenia’s joining Eurasian Economic Union ready (deputy PM)

A treaty on Armenia’s joining the Eurasian Economic Union is on the table and will be signed at a CIS summit in the Belarusian capital Minsk on October 10, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said at President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with the government on Friday.
“The treaty stipulating the Republic of Armenia’s joining the Eurasian Economic Union has already been worked out,” Shuvalov said.

US mistakes in Ukraine Crisis and the containment of Russia

Russia’s plan to establish a “Eurasian Union” has prompted the United States to pick up its policy of seeking the strategic containment of Russia. In this regard, a news story entitled “Clinton vows to thwart new Soviet Union” appearing on the Financial Times website on 6 December 2011 had caught much attention. Hillary Clinton, then US Secretary of State, told a news conference in Dublin that the US was trying to prevent Russia from recreating a new version of the Soviet Union under the ruse of economic integration. She warned, “There is a move to re-Sovietise the region. … It’s going to be called a customs union, it will be called Eurasian Union and all of that. … We know what the goal is and we are trying to figure out effective ways to slow down or prevent it”. Her tone signaled that the US was rethinking its “reset” in relations with Russia as declared in 2009.

Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan to form Eurasian economic bloc in 2015. - Ukraine decided not to take part

The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan have signed an agreement to create an alliance for free trade and coordinating important economic policies.

At a ceremony Thursday in Kazakhstan's capital, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kazakh leader Nursultan Nazarbayev touted what they called a historic pact.

Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko described the alliance, known as the Eurasian Economic Union, as a hard-fought agreement to tie the region together.

Schulz: Ukraine’s membership in Eurasian Economic Union to hinder free trade with EU

KIEV, February 18, 0:30 /ITAR-TASS/. Ukraine’s accession to the Eurasian Economic Union, which is expected to take place in January 2015, will be an obstacle in the way of setting up a free trade zone between Ukraine and the EU, believes European Parliament President Martin Schulz.
The EU Association agreement would not annul the neighbourly relations and good cooperation with Russia, CIS and the Customs Union as a whole, Schulz said in an interview with the Ukrainian news agency UNIAN. However, Ukraine’s joining the Eurasian Economic Union would render free trade with the EU problematic for a simple reason of incompatible regulations.