Russia wants union with its former territories
Source: Agence France-Presse
Thursday, December 20, 2012 by
AFP
Russia wants union with its former territories
‘There is an attempt to re-Sovietise the region’
Russia sought yesterday to expand its influence over former territories during integration talks that Washington has cast as a bid to “re-Sovietise” the region.
President Vladimir Putin met separately with the leaders of Belarus and Armenia before engaging the head of resource-rich Kazakhstan about ways to more closely bind the neighbours’ economies.
He also attended a collective security meeting that resolved to create a Moscow-led air defence unit that would focus its activities on the regions surrounding war-torn Afghanistan.
Western attempts “to force other nations to accept their own standards can lead to the most serious circumstances,” Putin said in a trademark swipe at the United States.
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I'm sure that's just what they want too!
These are two countries that could use an economic injection from anywhere, including Russia.
And their leaders are not immune to a little old-fashioned corruption.
