Social Action Forum for Manav Adhikar

Russia s Asian choice of today is not the same as the Slavophile Eurasian choice of the past.

Putin views this as a threat to Russia s economic interests, because Ukraine is unlikely to join his Eurasian Union if it is aligned with the EU and the Eurasian Union will not amount to much without Ukraine.

It is one of the most common birds of prey in Europe, along with the common kestrel and common buzzard.

The female is larger than the male, but the difference is not as marked as with Eurasian sparrowhawk.

His main proposal so far has been a Eurasian Union an expanded version of the current customs union among Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.

At last extinguishing the fire, he took the idol up very unceremoniously, and bagged it again in his grego pocket as carelessly as if he were a sportsman bagging a dead woodcock.

Thither, too, the woodcock led her brood, to probe the mud for worms, flying but a foot above them down the bank, while they ran in a troop beneath but at last, spying me, she would leave her young and circle round and round me, nearer and nearer till within four or five feet, pretending broken wings and legs, to attract my attention, and get off her young, who would already have taken up their march, with faint, wiry peep, single file through the swamp, as she directed.

Researchers have found that the Eurasian brown bear was separated about 850,000 years ago, one branch based in Western Europe and the other branch in Western Europe, Russia, Eastern Europe and Asia.

Under the banner of a Eurasian Union, and relying on the renationalized oil and gas sectors as both a carrot and a stick, the Kremlin wants to tie as many of the former Soviet territories as possible to the Motherland.

His three main policy instruments toward the post Soviet states are the customs union implied by his proposed Eurasian Union, Gazprom, and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).

As it stands, the EaEU seems to have two major goals to obstruct the integration of former Soviet republics into the West, and to help secure Putin s power.

But, when communism collapsed in its Eurasian heartland, the West s rich, believing that they had nothing more to fear, pressed to roll back the welfare state, causing inequality to rise rapidly.

That changed after Vladimir Putin returned to Russia s presidency in 2012. His main geopolitical project was now the creation of the Eurasian Union, which he knew could not succeed without forcing Ukraine off of its EU path and into his embrace.

Unless it somehow manages to deliver tangible economic benefits anyway, the EaEU seems destined to become another failed institutional initiative, like the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Russian Belarusian Union State, or the Central Asian Union.