Moscows intervention in Crimea could jeopardize the entire integration project [Putins plan on creation of Eurasian Union]. Ukraine has been driven even further into the Wests arms by the de-facto Russian annexation of the Black Sea peninsula. The EU could sign the political chapters of an association agreement with Kyiv as early as March 20th. Meanwhile, Belarus and Kazakhstan have failed to express strong public support for Moscows position in Ukraine. Putins doctrine of reserving the right to use military force to protect ethnic Russians might have Minsk and Astana worried. Nearly a quarter of Kazakhstans population and eight percent of Belarus claim Russian ethnicity. dw.de/putins-power-play-jeopardizes-eurasian-union-plans/a-17493164
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 00:40:41 +0000