Azerbaijan can work out an appropriate form of cooperation with the Eurasian project

That’s the opinion of Aleksei Vlasov, Deputy Dean of MSU History Faculty.

That’s the opinion of Aleksei Vlasov, Deputy Dean of MSU History Faculty.

“Azerbaijan has much more potential for successful cooperation with the Eurasian project than Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan: Azerbaijan is an economically developed country with stable social and political systems; it does not depend on Chinese counterfeits unlike some Russian partners, it has its own brands and format of cooperation,” Vlasov said to journalists in Baku on Friday.

Last year in the columns of “Izvestiya” Vladimir Putin presented the concept of a fundamentally new format of cooperation – the Eurasian Union.

According to Vlasov, Eurasian project is an opportunity to enhance common competitive advantages.

“If Azerbaijan has the desire to introduce some form of cooperation, even outside the Eurasian project, then I think it will be only a plus for both the countries of the Eurasian region, and Azerbaijan itself,” said Vlasov.

He believes that at present Baku is not ready to join the Eurasian Union, “but it can work out an appropriate form of cooperation with the Eurasian project”.

According to Vlasov, in the article on the concept of the Eurasian Union Putin sees the latter as a kind of overall objective, which should enable Russia to restart its relations with the entire post-Soviet area, not only with the partner countries in the Common Economic Space, but also with Azerbaijan, and perhaps, even wider.

This ideology, in the political scientist’s opinion, can be applied also to Turkey and some Middle East countries, all those who are willing to act as equal partners of Russia.

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