Opinions
The Future of the Union State of Belarus and Russia: The Union State from a Historical Perspective
The emergence of the Union State in the late 1990s was largely perceived as a paradox, when not forces but weaknesses united: in a situation when centrifugal tendencies were at their peak in Russia, and a further continuation of the "parade of sovereignties" seemed inevitable, Belarus, which was experiencing a chronic economic crisis, proposed to launch a process of mutual integration.