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USA Today: Putin lowers EU-style ambitions with economic pact

By USA Today.
Leaders of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan will create the Eurasian Economic Union, the development of the Customs Union.
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Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan signed an economic pact May 29 that forges closer trade and labor ties among the former Soviet republics.

While the pact fell short of creating the eastern-style European Union it was touted to be, the new Eurasion Economic union, nonetheless, advances Russian President Vladimir Putin's ambitions to reassemble former Soviet republics into a closer federation, if not one nation again.

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