EASTERN PARTNERSHIP IN THE GEOPOLITICAL CONTEXT OF POST-SOVIET SPACE
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Eastern Partnership, European Union, Eurasian integration, CIS, Customs Union, geopolitics.Abstract
The Eastern Partnership (EP) program should be viewed as another attempt to reformat the post-Soviet space along anti-Russian and anti-Eurasian lines and a response to Moscow’s integration activities. This is not the first attempt of its kind: the West has already tried other geopolitical and geoeconomic tools. The final aim, however, has remained the same: Russia’s domination and possible integration of post-Soviet regions irrespective of form, even economically adequate, should be prevented by all means.
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