states emerged from their alliance's dissolution -- armenia, belarus, estonia, georgia, kazakhstan, kyrgyzstan, lithuania, russia, turn men stan, ukraine, uzbekistan. today 20 years later the former soviet union alliance is undergoing an ingenious reincarnation. but with no communism. vladimir putin, the prime minister of calling for a new economic alliance with four former soviet of the alliance, and vladimir putin staying at the throttle. the name of this new russian connectivity is, get this, the eu, the eurasian union. in other words, an eu2, with the european union the eu1, if this eurasian union, the eu2, will serve as an ll pivot on free trade. the five nation will enjoy free exchange of goods across their mistake of eu1. >> we won't repeat the mistakes of the european union in our integration. we're conscious of what we're doing. we understand who we're g with. the european union took a shot in the dark. >> question, is putin trying to capitalize on the eurozone's woes? >> i thibault in is desperately trying to save his skin. the action in russ right now is the russian establishment ha