EURASIAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY AS A TRANSITION MODEL INTEGRATION STRATEGIES RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Abstract

Abstract. Analyze the process of integration of post-Soviet countries within the Eurasian
Economic Community and Customs Union. Noted that the integration projects are implemented
solely in accordance with the geopolitical interests of the Russian Federation. It was found that
the EEC became a kind of Russian integration policy tool in providing training to expand the
influence of Eurasian countries. With the creation of the Eurasian Economic Union was obvious
that it served as a transitional EEC Integration Institute for fifteen years under the doctrine
a «many of speed» integration of post-Soviet countries. Another type of supranational project
was the Customs Union, which aims to ensure the implementation of the strategy to create a
single economic space within Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan as the most prepared countries
in the economic, political and security integration. Integration associations advocate for Russia
rather as a means to restore the geopolitical influence in the world, at least partially comparable
to those that once had before the Soviet Union or the United States now have as the sole
superpower. To this end, Russia restores both economic and political pressure on former Soviet
republics in their degree of integration in the Eurasian promotion structure. However, the post-
Soviet union did not become an alternative to global integration like the EU or ASEAN, primarily
through its asymmetry and increased dominance of Russia, which casts doubt on their
strategic vision. Moreover, integration processes do not contribute to the prosperity of participants
Eurasian structures, mainly because the basis of their economic structure is raw products
that are in demand only markets outside these associations. However, the same type of post-Soviet
states economy creates more competition in the struggle for markets, as opposed to their convergence
and cooperation manufacturing industries.

Key words: integration, the Eurasian space, EEC, Customs Union, Russia, former Soviet
states.