Eurasian Union

In past I have created many GDP reviews regarding former Soviet Union republics, but have never made future GDP forecast report yet. In this article that's exactly what I'm doing. Now, Soviet Union doesn't exist for more than 25 years already. Those former 15 republics have gone more or less separate way since dissolution of USSR.   There has happened some geopolitical changes over last 25 years, starting of dissolution of USSR, formation of CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), three of…

<p>Yesterday I posted about&nbsp;<a href="http://www.reinisfischer.com/kyrgyzstan-join-eurasian-union">Kyrgyzstan joining Eurasian Union</a>, but forget to write about Armenia - so here is the deal (Original on RT)</p><p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has put his signature to a law that makes Armenia a full member of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) from January 2, 2015.</p><p>The document signed Tuesday will add the 3 million people in…

<p>I have been watching closely developments of Eurasian Union since 2010. Yesterday at hotels room in Bakuriani, I had a chance to watch Russian TV (I watch TV rarely and only in hotels)</p><p>Russian news were reporting some interesting (I would say funny) news - and one of them was about that&nbsp;Kyrgyzstan to join Eurasian Union:</p><p>After three years of negotiations, Kyrgyzstan has signed up to join the Moscow-led Eurasian Union, a protectionist post-…

<p>More than year a ago I published article&nbsp;<a href="http://www.reinisfischer.com/turkey-could-join-eurasian-union">Turkey could join Eurasian Union</a>&nbsp;were I tried to compare economy of Turkey by using GDP and GDP per capita for time period 2000-2012.</p><p>I found that Turkey might reach $1 trillion of GDP by the end of 2016, so did I found that Economy of Turkey has increased for about 3 times (2000-2012)</p><p>I did used…

That said makes me think, that Turkey has no serious plans to join Eurasian Union. IMHO Turkey is teasing European Union. And why shouldn't? Turkey has long, long history on it's attempts to join European Union, but there always are some obstacles from EU side. And that makes Turkey angry. From one side - EU is feeling fears, if Turkey will join EU, then mass migration of Turkish job seekers will over flood EU, on other hand it sounds kinda ridiculous. Germany, the main country against Turkey…

<p>Recently I have compared economies of <a href="http://reinisfischer.com/armenia-then-now-future">Armenia</a&gt;, <a href="http://reinisfischer.com/georgia-then-now-future">Georgia</a&gt;, <a href="http://reinisfischer.com/turkmenistan-gdp-1990-2014">Turkmenistan</a&gt;, <a href="http://reinisfischer.com/ukraines-gdp-growth-1990-2012">Ukraine</a&gt;, as well made some sarcastic post concerning…

Recently I wrote an article about Georgia, then, now - future, this time I would like to write about Armenia. Landlocked land, with huge economic problems, ongoing conflicts with neighboring Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karbakh region. A country that plans to enter Eurasian Union on January 1st, 2014.   Let's start with some basic chart: As seen from the chart above, Armenia, as well as neighboring Georgia, is no exception, in economic shrink after collapsing of Soviet Union. Now let's take a…