The EAEU: from idea to implementation

Any breakthrough idea has its origins and goes through certain stages of development. Thus, the initiative of the Eurasian economic integration was first put forward by the First President of Independent Kazakhstan.
This idea was announced by Nursultan Nazarbayev at Moscow State University on March 29, 1994. But it took years for other leaders of the post-Soviet space to comprehend and accept it…
According to the chief researcher of the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Doctor of Historical Sciences Lesya Karatayeva, the CIS, created in 1991, became only a kind of "anchor" that did not allow the states to finally separate and break the ties formed over decades. But we needed an additional solution that would allow us not only to preserve, but also to develop relations between states.