A new agreement between Eurasian Economic Union members Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Armenia will go into force on Jan. 1. Moscow had serious trouble convincing its main partners in Minsk and Astana to come on board and participate in the EEU, if only because the exact terms of cooperation within the earlier Customs Union agreement were never fully defined — although they form the foundation of the EEU. That Customs Union has undergone yet another round of "stress tests" in the last couple of weeks.
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