GAINS AND LOSSES OF TWENTY-FIVE-YEARS-OLD HISTORY OF NEW INDEPENDENT STATES

Abstract

How have new independent countries been developing after the collapse of the USSR? How did their political and business elite create their own states? What are their achievements and failures? What have people of these countries gained and what have they lost? These most difficult questions require fundamental research by the teams of scientists and specialists of all these countries. Though all these questions are being studied by the academic community of Russia and other friendly countries, and especially actively by western analysts, however, they demand for more in-depth study, especially in connection with the evident crisis of modern capitalism. The article considers general political and economic results of new independent states which formed after the downfall of the Soviet Union in December 1991, 25 years ago. Considerable attention is devoted to the prospects of the Euro-Asian Economic Union.