Cf. Janusz Bugajski,
5.
Dmitry Babich, “Russia-Belarus Union State on Shaky Legs,”
6.
Chubais quoted in Valery Paniouchkine and Mikhaïl Zygar.
7.
Larissa Sayenko, “Kto kogo dushit,”
8.
“Lukashenka at Bay,”
9.
Dmitri Trenin,
10.
Jan Maksymiuk, “Belarus: Lukashenka Eyes Union with Ukraine,”
11.
“Putin Named PM of Belarus-Russia Alliance,”
12.
“Medvedev Says Belarus Has Not Been Asked to Become Part of Russia,”
13.
“Medvedev Says Belarus Has Not Been Asked to Become Part of Russia.”
14.
Sergey Borisov, “Common Economic Space May ‘Absorb’ Union State of Russia, Belarus,”
15.
Borodin quoted by Ivan Savelyev, “Union State of Russia and Belarus Needs Intensive
Care,”
16.
Dmitry Medvedev’s blog, October 4, 2010. http://rt.com/About_Us/Blogs/kremlin-messages-president-talks-to-the-web.html.
17.
“Union State Should Re-integrate Former USSR, Russian Analyst Says,”
18.
Zbigniew Brzezinski,
19.
“Speaker Rules Out Ukraine Joining Belarus-Russia Union State,”
20.
“Speaker Rules Out Ukraine Joining Belarus-Russia Union State.”
21.
“Klaus von Beyme: Slavic Federation of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia Would be a Natural
Partner for the EU and NATO,”
22.
“South Ossetia May Join Russia-Belarus Union State,”
23.
Andrew Jack, “Putin ‘Could Head Post-Soviet Confederation,’”
24.
“Ukraine to Observe Russian-Belarusian-Kazakh Negotiations on Creation of Customs Union,” Office for a Democratic Belarus (December 1, 2010).
25.
“Ukraine to Observe Russian-Belarusian-Kazakh Negotiations on Creation of Customs Union.”
26.
“Putin Reminded to Whom Belarus Obliged Its GDP Growth,”
27.
“Ukraine to Observe Russian-Belarusian-Kazakh Negotiations on Creation of Customs Union.”
28.
Åslund quoted by Konstantin Rozhnov, “Will a New Customs Union Hurt Russia’s WTO Bid?”
29.
“Putin: Ukraina prodast Evrope 2 litra moloka, a Tamozhennyy Soyuz dast ey $9mlrd
v god,”
30.
Cf. Konstantin von Eggert, “Due West: Georgia’s Wildcard in Russia’s WTO Membership,”
31.
Pavel K. Baev, “Medvedev Enjoys Foreign Policy ‘Successes,’”
32.
“Putin Reminded to Whom Belarus Obliged its GDP Growth.”
33.
“Russia Still Considering to Include Armenia in Single Customs Union,”
34.
For a critical analysis of Medvedev’s proposal, see my paper “Medvedev’s Proposal
for a Pan-European Security Pact: Its Six Hidden Objectives and How the West Should
Respond,”
35.
Cf. Stephen Blank, “The CSTO: Gendarme of Eurasia,”
36.
Fyodor Lukyanov, “Eurasian Union is Putin’s Top Priority,”
37.
Uwe Halbach, “Vladimir Putin’s Eurasian Union: A New Integration Project for the CIS
Region?”
38.
“Interview: Analyst Says Uzbekistan’s Suspension Shows CSTO is ‘Irrelevant,’”
39.
“Serbia Becomes PA CSTO Observer,”
40.
Hall Gardner,
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