the inspectors of the customs union check the mechanisms of enrollment and distribution of customs duties in the common economic space. experts have revealed a minor violations in general the system works smoothly the meeting of financial control officers of belarus and russia and kazakhstan was held in minsk. it's been agreed the haughty let's kill a hundred of the effectiveness of the budget use of the union of the state of russia and belarus. they'll set up and pee in the end of last week jessica at one go. we had an open conversation i would like to know that we are introducing changes we are conducting an audit of efficiency not the intended use of budget funds. this control would deliver good results in the future. i would think if you see was that i need to do was put into things. the sultan as a viable pain official visit to china during a meeting of the president with the deputy minister for affairs of china and chains and joking in our corn on the parties discussed issues of bilateral cooperation. this wasn't what aspects of the national agenda as is often the survivors s

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his fullness of the most students examine the results of a customs union will be a positive impact and there may be temporary support for enterprises. all countries in the end of the wto because it opens up new markets a new opportunity to see nasa. for instance a child of the most typical wedding hall with internal assessments. mostly are to be company's export abroad after resources and raw materials consumer goods machinery and equipment are exported in the region from neighboring countries in general the turnover of up to the region with the customs union countries. makes about one point five giving us dollars. this amount is achieved by export of goods in russia campbell rose. now the entrepreneur is planning to update the product line and increase the capacity of the enterprise. does inform the national news agency launched a chinese news service currently over one thousand stores are available on the portal thus causing four mascot the russian english and chinese versions cousin form portal is available in a hundred and ninety seven countries the agency correspondent will work i

in the integration process presence of catholics in russia and others can freely travel in the customs union of the chain law into three countries is growing at a fast pace. be with them was mostly used one of them breaking treatment in kazakh center auction dollars increased two fold over the last two years that's a lot of thing that seventy million dollars a year is a good result. no country has some percentage growth of trade turnover union me chills and tears across the world towards the racial integration crisis is growing the presence of cows extent russia and others will sign an agreement on the creation a single economic union this man. the anti nuclear policy it does extend to open a new parent in the world of diplomacy. according to the cure his community the decision of the country to defend its interests of the international arena by peaceful and diplomatic means became a turning point in the history of independent context and thus the history of international relations turnover and knew he thinks of the decision of the kazakh leadership the principle of solving current problems

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particularly once the rumors came that putin was going to haul ukraine into the customs union. >> very nice to speak to you indeed. coming up, we will continue the conversation on ukraine. we will go to kiev and speak with the former president of georgia. -- whyt what he thinks he thinks the russian president cannot be trusted. ♪ >> welcome back to "the pulse," live on bloomberg television, radio, and streaming on your tablet, your phone, and bloomberg.com. >> let's go to manus cranny. ofwe are waiting for some the final emergency managers readings to come through in europe. the best thing that i read this morning was from the chief economist at morgan stanley, the risk of japification on this map. it is high and rising. there is a 35% risk of what happened in japan, putting off purchases. to thegest threat central bank, they have got to deal with that tomorrow. what will they do? do jews in the u.s., we are watching. u.s., we are the watching. s&p 500, we are waiting for the private payrolls add. -- adp. and the nonmanufacturing. back to you. >> thank you very much indeed. still to co

what are the options for the european union integration and for custom union agreement. [indiscernible] membership,out nato there are two different situations. before the crimean crisis and after the crimean crisis. afterwards, number of supporters of nato membership dramatically increased. it increased in my home city and other eastern ukrainian regions. actually, it is questions of a great power game and interrelations between the u.s. and russia and ukraine. there is a lot of space for negotiations and for regional agreements about military -- about the military state of ukraine and international security after the crimean crisis. unintended consequences. yes, it is probably too early to say something very concrete. i am not sure the situation in the caucuses might deteriorate directly as a consequence of the crimean crisis, but what might happen, and something that is more probable, is the growth of xenophobic attitudes, which inevitably -- which inevitably will follow this pathologic occasion that we are observing now. it will potentially lead to deterioration of in

we have created the customs union between kazakhstan. they are joining the union and think some other countries in central asia may join the union and we are offering memberships to the union for ukraine. they could not make up for their mind, they could be figure out how that could be coordinated. >> rose: you don't have any objec to ukraine having a good and positive relationship for the european union period. >> our objective is for all of us to have relationship between all of us. our objective is to have common european space from lisbon -- >> rose: here's what some people suggest about what happened. that when yanukovych even was suggesting that they might have a new relationship with the european union, it was then that the president of russia exercised the muscle that he had with respect to energy and other economic influences, to say you can't do that and you have to violate that understanding, otherwise we will stop supporting you economically. he used that leverage to force the ukrainian government to move away from europe. >>

i haven't so much "joining the eeu versus the customs union of vladimir putin," they wanted the russian-- the european, it's the music, the culture, the clothes, it's everything about them. in eastern ukraine as we're seeing today, there is still a bass chaibastian of pro putin p. later, in the ukraine, when i was there, a number of them killed by yanukovich and his desperation to keep control and that obviously didn't work and we now know that yanukovich asked putin to send in troops. that would have been very interesting. >> charlie: some people suggest yanukovich is an embarrassment to putin. >> i think, but he's the only horse he had to ride and it's it from obvious that he's taking care of mr. yanukovich now, just like he's taking care of mr. snowden. >> charlie: does president putin have leverage he can use against us or our allies in europe? >> oh, he has incredible leverage, as you know, particularly the energy situation. thank god, the weather is going to get warmer soon. he has those levers. he has an overwhelming military capability. there are many, many things, but particula

of russia's close its regional allies the slavic state has already agreed to join the russian a customs union a pet project of russian president putin intended to reply commitments to save the union. whether the tissue into recently trip to seoul as most as an extension of crimea. although he acknowledged the strategic not sleep in until it is now a defective talk to brush a presidential elections scheduled for twenty fifteen and then the rest. aye. i was . the new president abbas is celebrating his seventy ninth birthday. later in the year it will be his tenth year as the head of the palestinian authority. so we went to tok to some people who knew him intimately. to find out what we don't know about him and he does he have within him what it takes to be the one leader to make the peace between the palestinians and israelis. his son abdullah the director of the center for applied research and education in has met the bus for the first time when both of their families fled after the judgment of the state of israel as a refugee camp. his appearance on whom you need to go from the fifth one beca

custom union membership now that's custom union is between russia belarus and cause extend and it would lay the foundation for membership in this eurasian union however as we know today the rejection of the deal sparked by lindt protest in ukraine and the u.s. and the you have suggested that their aid is conditional conditional being the operative word conditional upon ukraine entering into a formal i.m.f. program and this would include harsh economic terms similar to what the i.m.f. and the e.u. have offered groups and portugal now ukrainian officials had already been negotiating with the i.m.f. for six years when they opted not to take the i.m.f. deal in november the i.m.f. has repeated the frozen aid over disagreements about ukraine's economic policy in october two thousand and nine ahead of national elections previous ukrainian president viktor. yushchenko signed a bill to increase the minimum wage by over twenty percent this place the i.m.f. chew your sixteen point four billion dollar bailout off track and as a result of the i.m.f. suspended payment in november two thousand and nin

will be with a cover not only domestic demand but also export products to the major cities of the customs union. two new projects have already been launched in the side around this pic. the first harvests will appear in the new greenhouse next month on the streets led me to sponsor their own with the station was kiss is forecast to a computer based system. if there is when the windows automatically closed. if there is some pic of her and spoke of the greenhouse up stairs where a system of pollination. irrigation is also important to lie to her new molars know that another change in the complex has been constructed a part of the accelerated in the street in innovative dual program engineering services were provided at the expense of the business roadmap farmer said that the most of one thing is that the vegetable prices can be kept. thanks to greenhouses. moreover a food factory opened inside the district he was also built within the framework of the statement program the enterprise will produce one hundred tonnes of cheese sour cream and baked goods as well as seven hundred tonnes of sausages f

international scientific and practical conference political legal and economic challenges of the customs union were high on the agenda of the discussions kazakh humanitarian law university brought together experts in the field of economics along as well as representatives of the relevant departments while elaborating recommendations that into account the financial experience and development paths of the three countries since the collapse of the soviet union and after gaining independence. each country has its own interests at present. experts are ready to offer practical methods for the resolution of various issues we need integration acknowledging the modern conditions the current economic situation and globalization trends. no country can solve its problems on its own without integration. a former employee shot dead six people and a turkish statistics institute office in the northeastern province of cars before turning the gun on himself. according to the turkish minister of development or did you last the attacker has psychological problems on wednesday morning recently dismissed civil serv

of russia's claims its regional allies the slavic state does are ready to re join the russian a customs union a pet project of russian president dmitri a team intended to avoid elements to save the union. whether the shooter recently trip to seoul as most is an extension of crimean war when he acknowledged the strategic oxycontin to live is now a defective heart of russia presidential elections scheduled for twenty fifteen and veterans. ever since new leadership took charge in ukraine last month the obama administration has expressed its support and optimism for the direction ukraine is thinking that support has continued as the american under secretary of state for political affairs when teacher and traveled to ukraine's industrial heartland the eastern city of the new corporate office in a show of solidarity and support for igor only ski the newly appointed governor of the deep corporate robust regional state administration igor cool moist cake is one of ukraine's most prominent jewish leaders often better known as a billionaire businessman oranges porch indian airlines banking and media. h

currently the new situation causes us to be careful because we are very closely connected with the customs union with russia and galleries. this highly important to connect galaxies to continue monitoring. that would ensue. is this. well the police will raise electricity tariffs only after a hearing. they have to convince the local authorities and the and there's a real need to change the price is only after that the agency for a donation to the police will consider the application of an enterprise a corresponding bailey's being prepared many agency for regulation of natural monopolies. this was announcing the government how in the martian nice but the chairman of the agency lacked the spine of false reporting and on the results of two thousand thirteen jury last year the man and investment sector reached two hundred and thirty million ten pm because of this it was possible to increase the energy efficiency of many utility service providers as a result consumers have saved over eleven point five billion taking in addition the moratorium on the change of the ring to it tears is effective and tony

it'll just to the customs union but the safer the ideology of your race and then some. it's a very good question. those of us were concerned about the bulldogs in the far right in ukraine are of course much more concerned about your reasons and because you're a citizen is also a far right wing ideology. likes the boat of the russian state has a big powerful actor and skilled the entire world what's happening in ukraine today is is announced by the russians in their own propaganda as the beginning of the campaign to restore right wing values those first in europe first to russia and europe and the rest the world so insofar as we're concerned about the threat of the right in eastern europe the place we will look first is the place that sending the army's other people's countries. let's just talk a bit more about what this book this will view it as a means of sleep. mixes nationalism and bolts of ism which on the face of it would seem to be too. quite incompatible things but just explain to us about how those two things if you use. and here is promoting this in the kremlin

this is again the customs union idea of bringing ukraine into the belarusian caveat and albanian customsion. the idea that was initially put forward on the part of the russian was between the regime that union and the european union to find a way of creating another high-level trade negotiation. some variation of that is now all kinds of gaming defusing over competing trade? the idea of duration union of the european union association of event, trade and investment partnerships, transpacific partnerships are all coming out of the idea that the wto has cried to a halt. all the trade negotiations with know-how going nowhere and that may be a regional bloc could provide some way forward, now see in the regional blocs are more likely to be leading to confrontation and more confusion. so now there is a discussion going on about how to make it across that? had wi-fi in different ways of finding out really what the main thoughts received by the russians and others by creations of these blocks. it is entirely possible that there could be some more discussion of our eurasian union and the europea

one option for european agreement and second option for custom union agreement. for a person to -- 30% is for ukrainian citizen. actually about, nato membership. there are two different situations. before crimea crisis and after crimea crisis and after crimea crisis number of supporters of for nato membership dramatically increases including my home city and other urn ukrainian regions. actually it is question of great power game and interrelations between u.s., and russia and ukraine. probably, there are a lot of space for negotiations and for reaching of agreement about military status, military state of ukraine, new architecture of international security after crimea crisis. >> unintended consequences, yes, it is problem too early to say something very concrete. i, i am not sure of the situation in the caucasus might deteriorate directly as as a result of the crimean crisis and something might happen, and something more probable maybe is the growth of xenophobic attitudes that will accompany this patriotic frenzy which we're observing right now and it will pot

this is again the customs union idea of bringing ukraine into the russian customs union. the idea that was initially put forward on the part of the russians, negotiation between the eurasian union and the european union to have higher level trade negotiations. some variation of that is now back on the table. there are talks including coming out to the eu there has to be away of diffusing these tension officers come petting trade blocs. the idea of the european union association agreements, the transatlantic trade partner ship, transpacific partnership, the idea that the wto has ground to a halt and although trade negotiations are going nowhere and that maybe a regional whether bloc could find -- more likely to lead to confrontation and to more confusion. so now there's a discussion going on behind the scenes about how can we get across that? how can we find different ways of discussing this and finding out what is the main construct by the russians and others by the creation of these blocs. it is entirely possible that there could be some more discussion about eurasian un

. >> that's not what's happening here, the soft annexation is the customs union that he proposed a while ago, with belarus and kazakhstan joined a while ago, cobbled out of the former soviet space, because he thinks like many of his generation these borders are in large part if not entirely fictitious. even if there's an independent ukraine, wink wink nudge nudge, in an economic sense subservient to, for ukraine to flirt with nato, to flirt with european russia. >> you said in his press conference putin was nervous, paranoid, here was an authoritarian dancing uncomfortably in his new dictator shoes. it proved that angela merkel is right that he lost his mind but you end in saying, this is not a good thing because it makes him arter to deal with. >> exactly. before there was kind of an understanding that vunt vladimir putin, i hate to keep going back to the soviet analogy but it is an apt one. he did come of age in the late soviet union, when ideology was really not believed. you paid lip service to the milk, nobody believed any of it, it served a purely utilitarian purpose. for the first

the russian world, the customs union, the eurasian union will be a source of stability because russia cannot provide that security, integrity and national independence. >> ifill: nadia diuk, finalward on the point, whether moving toward the e.u. is worth it or worth it for the other nations who now fear they may be targets. >> well, i mean, you have to remember what happened prior to this annexation of crimea. there were ukrainians who were leaving and, in the case of about 100 people dying on the euro midan, whose primary aim was to support ukraine's integration into europe, so the ukrainians obviously think that it's worth having a big sacrifice in order to preserve the future for their children and for their grandchildren and many have expressed this desire. >> ifill: nadia diuk for the national endowment for democracy and janusz bugajski, senior associate at the center for strategic and international studies. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> woodruff: the obama administration announced today that 4.2 million people have signed up for enrollment so far in the health insurance

in his plans for a custom's union, among the former soviet states. >> after securitying over crimea, president putin most lakely would fight tooth and nail to make current nationalist government in kiev. overthrow and to see the new ukraine leadership, which would probably end in a fresh negotiations. >> meanwhile p it is is basking in another set of government sponsor opinion polls. russia may be condemned by most of the world for what the u.s. calls the crimea land grab, but the russian presidents approval ratings have never been higher, throughout his presidency. 75.1% of the people support him, and that is up 15% since the start of this crisis. live now to moscow, we are keeply interested in those new sanctions that have been imposed by president obama, and who -- which individuals he has targeted. >> well, president putin likes to keep those loyal to him, keep them close to him, and these are some of his closest cronies p three they are an eclectic mix. they are senior, very senior government officials. form ire kgba agents and of course, there is egor head of russia's military

theasn't so much as to join eu, versus a custom unions of latimer hooton.adimirnt to be -- vitami putin. there's still a bastian of pro-russian people. that is understandable. even the young people in eastern ukraine do not want to be a part of russia here at that is what it is all about. later there was a number in the field that was wounded and arrested in the desperation to keep control. .hat did not work we now know that yankovic asked wooten to send in troops. that would have been -- asked putin to send in troops. that would have been embarrassing. he is dealing horse he had to ride. -- he is the only horse he he had to write up. ,e is taking care of yankovic just like he's taking care of mr. snowden. >> does he have any leverage to use against us or our allies? >> he definitely has leverage. lovers.hose he has no cap she has those -- levers,hose particularly energy. this has been about for the russian economy. the currency has fallen. the stock market is down. there was a reaction to this that may affect putin's economy. but i mention one other thing?

essentially ruins putin's ambitions to re-establish the old soviet empire through something called a custom unional if he loses the rest of ukraine and that is where most of our focus should be. >> don't you think the best case scenario is that the united states contain crimea to putin and make sure it doesn't expand into eastern ukraine, at least in the short term? >> i think it's important to draw a line here and to make sure that we make him understand that any movement outside of crimea elevates the stakes but i haven't given up on diplomacy leading to a different outcome. we've seen this when he marched into georgia after a series of weeks, he marched part of his troops back. there are other alternatives here like bringing in international peace keeping forces to protect russian citizens that may be able to de-escalate the conflict. i understand it looks bad today but there's a history here of russia moving forward and then moving back once the international forces get ratcheted back up. >> what do you say to the people of crimea have the right to choose whether they want to be part of ukrai

president putin would like to see a customs union that includes you vain ukraine.this new government in kiev is not to hick liking, so he's exercising his military power here, there are 30,000 troops here now. they dreary have the peninsula lockdown. here this is a very pro russian town, so many people are for them. but it is a very divided peninsula. even on the russian border there are those who defend. so it is a very dangerous game many people feel that vladimir putin is playing, and that he is flexing his military might and showing his power. they have a feet based--they have a fleet based here. they were concerned that the new government in kiev might not recognize them. it'russia wants to show that its influence and powers exerted here. and last night declaring unilaterally that it is part of russia, and with that referendum coming up in nine' days time everyone will be watching what is happening. the stand off is very tense here and there is a lot of concern here that some sort of flash points could be manufactured to have trouble one of the crimeaen tatars

putin's policy in the creation of what he calls the customs union in which ukraine was supposed to bento the eurasian union that includes belarus, kazakhstan, armenia and possibly ukraine if ukraine agrees and it doesn't, that would be the soviet yawn union light or the russian empire light. this is a legacy. don't forget, putin is 62. he got all he could dream of. he became the leader of the second nuclear power and the largest country on earth. he has more oil and gas in the ground in russia than the king saudi arabia. why do we get did the boy who has everything? an empire. >> what about the question you talk about him being 62 years old. when you see strong men around the world, when they hit a certain age, they start to look bizarrely young. i'm going to put him in that category. there's no wrinkles on his face. he does what he needs to do to look young and viral. why does he do this? all jokes aside. >> well, i think he believes that russia, a country where the average life expectancy for men is, drumbeat, 62, he needs to look young. so that he can get re-elected. and he already

it's got a customs union attached. he's got a security organization sort of mirrored on nato. trying to build a set of institutions to rebuild, if you will, a russian empire. and you can see how far he's gone so far. >> we put those in red. so you have here three countries. kazakhstan, russia itself, and belarus. we were talking earlier about how he's pulling armenia here, and kyrgyzstan closer, they're not in it yet, but they're coming closer. >> they're putting a lot of pressure on it. armenia had an association agreement with the eu. after three and a half hours in moscow, the president said we're going to go with the euroasian union. >> there's diplomatic pressure, there's financial pressure. >> but the key to making this work is ukraine. with ukraine, because of its historical ties to russia, because of its industry, because of its population, with ukraine this begins to look like a convincing empire. without it, it's never really going to rival the west. >> i learned a word today that ukraine means buffer. and in effect, it is a buffer, literally and physically. this giv

need to be an either/or for ukraine between the european association agreement and the russian customs unionat was on the table was the eu offering $160 million for five years over five years. ukraine is bankrupt. this is a sober reality. and it's going to require a negotiated settlement to provide for the territorial integrity of ukraine, for fair and free elections, fair and free because russia, and i'm, you know, russia does not consider the kiev government legitimate. fair and free elections, a promise not to expand nato into ukraine, and an agreement that ukraine can be part of both eu and the russian customs union. i mean, the scope and scale of what confronts this country, if it's going to be a democratically viable, economically viable country, requires we stop this talk of cold war. no americans, by the way, have desire or reason to go to war with russian over ukraine. no european does. so let's stop the bluster, let's work towards a negotiated settlement. and putin, i guarantee you, you may know more about this, but the back channels are being worked like crazy, angela merkel is cr

today well ukraine was stuck and in this idiotic tug of war between the european union and the customs union which it is a sort of soviet union lite if you will it's it's basically a way that if they can be former soviet territory more or less function as a border less sensitive with regard to trade a the european union wanted ukraine in its fold for political reasons largely but really wasn't able to offer it anything. and facing bankruptcy a year the ukrainian government turned to moscow for help and and moscow obliged with admission to the customs union and with some fifteen billion dollars of pledged support but that upset the west and so in the struggle who are basically whatever a consensus for existed and ukraine was destroyed and this allowed a bunch of neo nazis to dive into the breach and take over the government and basically take over parliament and have the parliament do whatever it wants basically at gunpoint which is not a legitimate state of affairs but unfortunately the united states and brussels decided to recognize this new neo nazi regime in kiev and make it its own. prec

an open market between the eu when the ukraine a movie of the customs union between ukraine and russia. you can find two of which it would have been costly. kinky is money. do a loan that you were coaching for most of us to follow the americans to whom tomato. mrs norton the book includes reducing the boat for us. it began in two thousand and eight. don't forget that folder options my russian friends enjoying living abroad alone living in russia today the jungle in the region itself. totally new. why is telling you when the words of the monkey's idea. oh for the open ukrainian accession to make one. and in the russian mind you we still fall for me to michael's has been so awesome that is in the game. before when you rolled over so vigilant. as he has been in such a short life changed i think too much for him after his children right. in all that would have his opening viola with the russians the new four wheel and tweaks made it to sink into the wilderness. we humans for free except for the comfort matthew matthew convince cage and the west overreach most notably by going on that track

idea of ringing ukraine into the customs union. it was initially put forward this would be a negotiation of correct where eighting another high level of trade negotiation. of that back on the table and now there are all kinds of talks that this has to a way of diffusing these complications. union a of european association agreements and the ranspacific partnership are coming out of the idea that it a halt.ind to aybe a regional block could provide somewhere forward. t's more likely to be leading to a confrontation and to more confusion. ow there is a discussion going on meaned the scenes how can we find different ways of finding out is and really what is going on. i think it is spirally possible could be some more theussion about taking down rhetoric and having a straightforward and very about what scussion his real routes of the cop tphreubgts and the confrontation this. to be a his is going great deal of complication on this syria and iran front. we saw the blocking of envoy over the last few discussions about having a u.n. missi

and as vladimir putin tried to re-create that empire under the guise of something called a customs union, he knew that he couldn't do it without the second biggest country in europe bordering on russia and ukraine. and his invasion was really a panicked reaction to this new reality. one now oriented towards the european union. and so i think it's important to understand the position that he's in. he has made a mass for the international community to try to clean up his invasion of crimea. but crimea represents 2 million people in a country of 45 million. 90% of the ukraine is a government that does sign and association agreement with the european union and russia's economy is going to have this occupation or broad-based set of international sanctions in the world community and i would agree with my colleague he said we shouldn't just be talking about removing russia from the g8, but we should take them out of the g-8 and make it completely clear that they do not have a place at the international table along with the united states, france, germany, england, if they behave in this way. so