Resumen de EEU as a new integration community

Rigina Syssoyeva ---

• One of the most heated and debated issues among the scientists of Central Asia and the Russian Federation is the perspectives of integration and its benefits for people and science. Nowadays the most ambitious and encouraging integration project among former Soviet countries is the Eurasian Economic Union of Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus that is estimated to be created in 2015. So far, the countries have successfully passed two integration steps – Customs Union and Common Economic Space – that has helped them abolish all tariff and non-tariff trade barriers and create an internal market of 165 million consumers. Integration is justified in political and economic terms by possibility of market enlargement, collective security issues, similar political opinions and strong cultural, linguistic and human ties among states.