Moscow, Oct 5 (ANI): Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said he wants to forge a "Eurasian Union" on the vast territory that used to be the Soviet Union to compete with the European Union and the United States.
The Telegraph quoted Putin as saying that he wanted to create a global power bloc that would straddle one fifth of the earth's surface and unite almost 300 million people.
"We have a great inheritance from the Soviet Union. We inherited an infrastructure, specialised production facilities, and a common linguistic, scientific and cultural space. It is in our joint interests to use this resource for our development," he wrote in an article extolling the idea in the daily Izvestia newspaper.
He called the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union as "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century".
He further denied that his new plan was an attempt to resurrect the Russian-led superpower, insisting that the Eurasian Union would be freer than the Soviet Union and membership would be voluntary.
"We are not talking about recreating the USSR. It would be naive to try to restore or copy what was in the past. But time dictates that we should have closer integration based on values, politics and economics," he added. (ANI)
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