[lbo-talk] East Asia

[Chris Doss]

I wrote this:
>
>This seems to be a global trend. Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Kazhakstan 
>just entered a Union of Four, and Russia is using its economic growth to 
>consolidare its position as lord and master in the CIS. Kuchma told 
>Ukrainians last week to give up their pipe dream of joining the EU.
>
>If you ask me, in a few decades your going to see a huge more-or-less 
>consolidated political structure on the Eurasian landmass. In other words, 
>the USSR will have been reformed, with a different political and economic 
>system.

If people are interested in the continuing consolidation of the CIS, here 
are some links:

http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/business/articles/eav092203.shtml

http://www.eurasianet.org/resource/tajikistan/hypermail/200304/0013.shtml

http://www.internews.ru/ASIA-PLUS/bulletin_44/union.html

http://www.ucpb.org/eng/show1prel.shtml?no=703

http://www.infoukes.com/rfe-ukraine/2003/0428.html

http://english.pravda.ru/diplomatic/2002/09/17/36780.html

http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:XgUCU6TwuU8J:www.micex.com/downloads/pubs/pub_37.doc+common+currency+ruble&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

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