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| Subject: Russia-led bloc set to expand borders Sat Nov 30, 2013 7:34 pm | |
| Today, a train car loaded with coal in Kazakhstan can rumble thousands of kilometres across the Eurasian steppes to a factory in Belarus, all without once clearing customs.
Citizens of three former Soviet countries - Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan - can work legally on the territory of one another's countries.
And in a skyscraper in Moscow, hundreds of officials at a new international organization have quietly taken over trade policy for these three governments.
After years of fits and starts, a Russian-backed idea to form a free-trade zone on the territory of much of the former Soviet Union is closer to fruition than ever before.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/world-business/russialed-bloc-set-to-expand-borders-20131129-2yhf2.html#ixzz2mB9Zq5xB |
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