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Often considered as the incarnation of Vladimir Putin’s nostalgia for the former Soviet Union, the Eurasian Union has been largely ignored by the West. In fact, it was in the margins of a Eurasian Union summit in the Belarus capital Minsk in August 2014 that Mr Putin met the Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko whose predecessor, Viktor Yanukovych, has advocated Ukraine’s accession to the project, thus rejecting a deal with the European Union that touched off last winter’s protests in Kiev.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 13:29:12 +0000

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