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Putin’s Eurasian Economic Union starts in 2015 with curtailed ambitions


MOSCOW — It was to have been Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top foreign policy triumph: a grand alliance to rival to the European Union, stretching from Ukraine to the Pacific.But with conflict engulfing Ukraine, the pact that will go into effect on Jan. 1 is a more modest version of Putin’s lofty vision. On Tuesday, the leaders of four former members of the Soviet Union gathered in Moscow to discuss the final arrangements for a deal that will draw their economies closer together. It will fall short of the ambitious project that would have given the Kremlin far more sway …read more

Source: The Washington Post

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