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This is why the opponents of Eurasian integration concentrate their efforts on discrediting his-
tory and national and civilizational relations, and setting the Russian people against the peoples
of the former USSR.
It is also essential to understand and take into account that contemporary Eurasian integration
has not only an economic but also a civiliza-tional aspect. It is a very important factor that re-
quires serious discussion, without politicking or emotions, because it has a substantial impact on
the future of the Eurasian space and is crucial to whether it will remain a unique phenomenon
of world history or will be buried under the wave of globalization.
Antonio Rondon Garcia, Chief Editor of Prensa Latina
in Russia (Cuba)
HISTORIAN ERIC HOBSBAWM wrote in his book
Age of Extremes: "We should either change or die." I
am convinced that the paradigm of power based on
domination, which has been the axis of gravity for the
entire modern world in the past few centuries, should
be juxtaposed with elementary concern for the collec-
tive responsibility for the common future of the Earth
and the humankind.
Regarding a slowdown of progressive development trends in Brazil. Argentina, and to some ex-
tent in Venezuela, Arce noted that it would be grossly unjust to blame for this indirect regress a
new mode of production, which has been trying to hack its way through the impenetrable jungles
of the crisis-torn, although still strong and domineering capitalism, and to call into question the
quality of political leadership, without taking into account the historical context and the exacer-
bated class struggle.
Pope Francis would not go no further than to state that the situation in some countries of the
region, where major social achievements have been made benefitting most of the population,
arouses suspicions, that this situation has not been developing normally and logically, and is ex-
tremely dangerous for the overall political stability in the world.
We should always bear in mind that neoliberalism has acquired a new lease of life and is aimed
at fragmenting the region, destroying all that has been achieved in the field of regional integration,
creating unprecedented and domineering chains of the so-called new knowledge economy and
its agreements on intellectual property, in order to perpetuate the technological dependence of
peripheral countries and impose on them their ideological products, says the correspondent of
Prensa Latina.
Sergey Glazyev, Member of the Russian Academy of Sci-
ences, Chairman of the Academy's Council on Comprehensive
Problems of Eurasian Economic Integration, Modernization,
Competitiveness, and Sustainable Development
IN MAY 2015, the leaders of Russian and China
signed an agreement to integrate the Eurasian Eco-
nomic Union with the Silk Road Economic Belt. To
be put into practice, this agreement, which was signed
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