Dimitri Medvedev has voiced probably his last threat as the president towards the post-Soviet republics at the meeting with the leaders of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, as well as the leaders of Armenia, Moldova and Ukraine in the Kremlin on Monday. The presidents discussed formation of free trade zone within the Euro-Asian Union.
Medvedev said their refusal to join the Euro-Asian Union will pose them before serious problems.
Currently, only Belarus and Kazakhstan have signed a declaration of Euro-Asian Economic Integration. The final formation of the union is scheduled for 2015. The next meeting is scheduled for April.
Twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia is seeking to increase its influence from the Polish border to the Pacific Ocean by bolstering economic ties and creating its own answer to the European Union.
