On January 1, 2021, the Agreement on Pension Provision of Workers of the Eurasian Economic Union Member States dated December 20, 2019 entered into force (hereinafter referred to as the Agreement). Recall that the main purpose of the Agreement is to form the pension rights of workers of the EAEU member states on the same conditions and in the same manner as citizens of the state of employment. This means that each EAEU member state must guarantee to citizens of other EAEU member states the amount of rights to pension benefits equal to the amount of rights granted to its citizens on similar conditions.
Thus, in accordance with Article 12 of the Agreement, containing transitional provisions, it is provided that the appointment and payment of pensions are carried out in the following order:
for the length of service acquired after the entry into force of the Agreement, the pension is assigned and paid by the EAEU member state in whose territory the corresponding length of service was acquired;