All right, Alexander, let's talk about the Eurasia Economic Council meeting that took place the other day,

and in attendance was also Armenia and Hashidyan.

So what happened at this meeting?

Well, it's a very interesting meeting, actually.

I mean, this brings together the states of what's called the Eurasian Economic Union,

which is basically Russia, Belarusia, Kazakhstan, and I think Kyrgyzir as well.

But increasingly, some of the other Central Asian states, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan are aligning with it.

But anyway, it was those core states.

In other words, it's the economic core of what used to be the Soviet Union.

Armenia is also a member, and it has done very well economically, it must be said, out of the Eurasian Economic Union.

Putin pointed out that Armenia's growth is achieved an annual growth rate of

around 9% this year. And, you know, it's doing that as a member of the Eurasian economic union.

So, as we know, Prime Minister Pasinian has been trying to realign armenia with the West, but he's been talking about NATO membership and EU membership.

He's thrown a huge fit over the collective security treaty organisation.

But at the same time, he seems to understand,

or at least some of the people around him,

but perhaps telling him,

we've got to keep in with the Eurasian economic union

because without it, our economy will go massively downhill.

So he turns up in St. Petersburg where they had this meeting and apparently

there were all sorts of private discussions and they agreed a roadmap for their own

organisation which apparently moves towards, you know, greater economic integration, improving economic links and all of those

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