A Difficult Road to Eurasian Economic Integration

A Difficult Road to Eurasian Economic Integration

Author(s): Gennady Chufrin
Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Aglaya Snetkov, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 112
Pages: 5-8
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen; Institute of History, University of Basel
Publication Year: 2012

In 2010, almost two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus formally started a process of economic integration by establishing a three-country Customs Union. The article analyses the development of this project since then, highlighting both the achievements made by its participants and problems that they are facing.