View from Moscow: Russia tries to create values capable to involve  neighbor countries

ArmInfo.Russia continues to make efforts in the direction of creating a value basis capable of becoming attractive to neighboring countries and countries of the  post- Soviet space. Such an opinion was expressed by Andrey Areshev, a researcher at the Center for the Study of Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Urals and Volga Region of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, at an international round table on "Integration vectors and security:  challenges and  opportunities".  

"Unfortunately, this is not always possible: there  is too much variation between the value orientations of Russian  society itself, and the development of a single value reference in  this light is quite problematic." In this light, even the EAEU  countries are looking around in search of guidelines more relevant to  their views " , he noted. 

In this light, Areshev singled out the absence of humanitarian policy in the EAEU as a big problem, stressing that over the past 25 years, societies and countries have moved away from each other. According to his estimates, not everything boils down to economics, and the societies of the EAEU countries know less about each other than allies should know.  However, this is very important for the development of civil  relations.

The expert assessed the relations of the countries within the  framework of the EAEU as apex, stressing that the meetings and  decisions of the presidents and prime ministers, the effective work  of the Eurasian Economic Commission on the everyday life of citizens  are clearly not reflected to the extent they would like.