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We do not need to search for an alternative to our operating procedure in Russian, which
suits everybody just fine. As is known, the EU has plenty of problems over the need to
translate official documents into different languages. Under our treaty, only fundamental
agreements subject to ratification are translated into national languages, which is certainly
not the scope of translation that is required in the European Union.
Since we are primarily an economic association, the future WTO system, its transfor-
mation, and its strong and weak aspects amid the regionalization of trade negotiations
are also a factor that we should analyze in our work.
Vladimir Zharikhin
, Deputy Director, the CIS
Institute
ECONOMIC INTEGRATION in the post-So-
viet space has moved from the stage of wishful
thinking and unfinished projects into a stage of
the formation of real economic integration asso-
ciations. This is facilitated by the formation of ra-
tionally oriented national elites and the general
situation in the world, which leaves no other reasonable options except for the intensi-
fication of economic integration processes.
The much touted worldwide globalization has unexpectedly taken the path of establish-
ing rather isolated economic clusters, such as the European Union, NAFTA and Mer-
cosur. Countries outside these associations are doomed eventually to become sources
of natural resources and cheap labor.
The position of the Kazakh and Belarusian leaders is understandable. They are con-
cerned that the introduction of political integration elements will lead to the unification
of these countries' political models with the Russian model, which stands out for its sig-
nificantly higher level of democracy.
Elena Ponomareva, Professor, Chair of Comparative Political Science, Moscow State
Institute (University) of International Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russ-
ian Federation
Aggressive globalization and the threats and challenges it creates have convinced each
and every one that civilizational variety of Eurasia can be protected only within integra-
tion projects which will shape the real "all-Eurasian unity" with Russia as its core. The
road to the continent's future security and prosperity lies through a new strategy of the
development of Russia - the "smart power'' strategy which, in its turn, will change world
politics.
Today, the indices of power which cover the widest possible range of the country's re-
sources and also the intellectual, information and will power of the system and political