Seven Steps Beyond the Crisis Horizon: Reflecting on Past Mistakes

... Armenia and the Kyrgyz Republic joined the Union in 2015. The following year an agreement was signed on a free-trade area with Vietnam, followed by agreements on trade and economic cooperation with China, Iran, and so on. However, the share of Russia’s EAEU partners in its foreign trade turnover at the end of 2019 was less than 8 per cent (to compare, Germany’s EU partners make up 58 per cent of its foreign trade turnover). The recent spats between Moscow and Minsk on energy clearly point to the fragility ...