Reid Standish: Putin’s Eurasian dream is over before it began
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting of the State Council and the Presidential Council for Culture and Art at the Kremlin in Moscow, on Dec. 24, 2014.
On Jan. 1, one of Vladimir Putin's most ambitious foreign-policy projects and a longtime Kremlin dream became a reality. Unfortunately for Putin and his colleagues in Moscow, nothing about the plan will work.