'Economic and currency' alliance wouldn't be new USSR: prime minister
(NEWSER) - Russia’s former—and likely next —president wants to join former Soviet countries in a “Eurasian Union.” The entity would be rooted in Russia’s Customs Union with Belarus and Kazakhstan, to allow labor, capital, and trade to flow freely among the countries beginning next year, Reuters notes. But “we are not going to stop there,” the current prime minister writes. His “ambitious goal”: to “achieve an even higher integration level in the Eurasian Union.” More»
