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virus of conceited regionalism.
Sergey Kizima
, Deputy Head, Foreign Policy Sec-
tion, Consultative Council, Union Parliament of the
Union State of Russia and Belarus
ASIA will be the focus of Eurasian integration for
many reasons.
One of them is the general trend for Asia to become
the hub of the world's economic activity. Fifteen to
20 years will go by and Europe will end up at the pe-
riphery of the global economy while its center will have shifted to China, Japan, and India.
China will be the economic center not only of Asia but of the entire world. By that time,
due to such extrapolation of development dynamics, the Chinese economy might be about
twice the size of the economy of the European Union or roughly equivalent in size to the
economies of the United States and EU put together.
Another reason is that attempts by principal countries involved in Eurasian integration to
cooperate with the EU over the past two decades have been fruitless.
In either case, neither corporations nor governments in the EU have been prepared to in-
vest anywhere outside the resources sectors of the Eurasian troika and or have shown the
slightest desire to deploy modern high-tech industries on the territory of Russia, Belarus,
or Kazakhstan, or share high-tech knowhow with them.
The EU has failed to see the potential for its relations with important eastern neighbors
or to pull serious resources into large-scale programs that would stimulate Russia, Belarus,
and Kazakhstan to cooperate with it.
Today, Russia is practically in a state of war. Courtesy of Western countries, Ukraine, a
Slavic sister nation that some time ago fought fascism shoulder to shoulder with all other
peoples of the Soviet Union, is increasingly an irreconcilable enemy of Russia.
Armen Oganesyan: We should support the healthy unifying trends that exist today. The
current trend of the Russian World is quite viable. Things will certainly not be smooth
with regard to Hungary, especially considering that Hungarians will support Uniate trends,
since they are Catholics. However, we should uphold and defend our interests, finding
allies such as Hungary. Considering the specifics, identity and heterogeneity of the Ruthen-
ian movement, they should be given their due. The moral aspect is very important: Nothing
is being said about Ruthenians in our media.