A report on Eurasia and Eurasian Economic Union

The boundary of the 13th century Mongol Empire and location of today's Mongols in modern Mongolia, Russia and China.

Single markets in European and post-Soviet countries; European Economic Area and Common Economic Space

Meeting of the leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Bishkek, 2008. The CIS initiated the lengthy process of Eurasian integration.

Area from Lisbon to Vladivostok with all European and CIS countries

Current decision-making process of the Eurasian Customs Union and the Single Economic Space

Selection of GDP PPP data (top 10 countries and blocs) in no particular order

Changes in national boundaries after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc

The Moscow International Business Center is a commercial district in Moscow that is currently under construction. The complex includes some of Europe's tallest skyscrapers.

A silver altyn minted in 1711 during the reign of Peter the Great

The Trans-Siberian Railway is a vital link between the Russian Far East and the rest of Eurasia.

The Turkestan–Siberia Railway connects the Central Asian republics to Siberia.

Past and projected GDP (nominal) per capita in EAEU countries.

Free trade agreements of EEU. Red - EEU. Green - Countries that have FTA with EEU.

On 21 May 2014, Russia and China signed a $400 billion gas deal. Starting 2019, Russia plans to provide natural gas to China for the next 30 years.

Ilham Aliyev, Dmitry Medvedev and Serzh Sarkisian hold peace talks in Moscow on 2 November 2008.

Lama River – in the Moscow region of Russia

On the southern shore of Issyk-Kul lake, Issyk-Kul Region – Kyrgyzstan

A view of Mount Aragats from Aragatsotn – Armenia

A view of Mount Mönkh Saridag – Okinsky District, Russia

Saint Petersburg, the second-largest city and cultural capital of Russia

Yerevan, the capital and financial hub of Armenia

Business centre in central downtown Nur-Sultan

Almaty, the major commercial and cultural centre of Kazakhstan

Bishkek, the capital and financial hub of Kyrgyzstan

The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU or EEU) is an economic union of some post-Soviet states located in Eurasia.

- Eurasian Economic Union

Similar in concept to the European Union, the Eurasian Union is an economic union established in 2015 including Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and observer members Moldova, Uzbekistan, and Cuba. It is headquartered in Moscow, Russia and Minsk, Belarus. The union promotes economic integration among members and is theoretically open to enlargement to include any country in Europe or Asia.

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Russia

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Transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia.

The Kurgan hypothesis places the Volga-Dnieper region of southern Russia and Ukraine as the urheimat of the Proto-Indo-Europeans.

Sergius of Radonezh blessing Dmitry Donskoy in Trinity Sergius Lavra, before the Battle of Kulikovo, depicted in a painting by Ernst Lissner

Tsar Ivan the Terrible, in an evocation by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1897.

Russian expansion and territorial evolution between the 14th and 20th centuries.

Napoleon's retreat from Moscow by Albrecht Adam (1851).

Emperor Nicholas II of Russia and the Romanovs were executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918.

Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky during a 1920 speech in Moscow

Location of the Russian SFSR (red) within the Soviet Union in 1936

The Battle of Stalingrad, the largest and bloodiest battle in the history of warfare, ended in 1943 with a decisive Soviet victory against the German Army.

The "Big Three" at the Yalta Conference in February 1945, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin.

Mikhail Gorbachev in one-to-one discussions with Ronald Reagan in the Reykjavík Summit, 1986.

Vladimir Putin takes the oath of office as president on his first inauguration, with Boris Yeltsin looking over, 2000.

Vladimir Putin (third, left), Sergey Aksyonov (first, left), Vladimir Konstantinov (second, left) and Aleksei Chalyi (right) sign the Treaty on Accession of the Republic of Crimea to Russia in 2014

Köppen climate classification of Russia.

Yugyd Va National Park in the Komi Republic is the largest national park in Europe.

Chart for the political system of Russia

Putin with G20 counterparts in Osaka, 2019.

Sukhoi Su-57, a fifth-generation fighter of the Russian Air Force.

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, anti-war protests broke out across Russia. The protests have been met with widespread repression, leading to roughly 15,000 being arrested.

The Moscow International Business Center in Moscow. The city has one of the world's largest urban economies.

The Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest railway line in the world, connecting Moscow to Vladivostok.

Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765), polymath scientist, inventor, poet and artist

Mir, Soviet and Russian space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001.

Peterhof Palace in Saint Petersburg, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow is the most iconic religious architecture of Russia.

Moscow State University, the most prestigious educational institution in Russia.

Metallurg, a Soviet-era sanatorium in Sochi.

The Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, at night.

The Scarlet Sails being celebrated along the Neva in Saint Petersburg

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893), in a 1893 painting by Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov

Kvass is an ancient and traditional Russian beverage.

Ostankino Tower in Moscow, the tallest freestanding structure in Europe.

Maria Sharapova, former world No. 1 tennis player, was the world's highest-paid female athlete for 11 consecutive years.

It is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, a member of the G20, the SCO, BRICS, the APEC, the OSCE and the WTO, as well as the leading member of the CIS, the CSTO, and the EAEU, Russia is also home of 30 UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

It spans the northernmost edge of Eurasia; and has the world's fourth-longest coastline, of over 37653 km. Russia lies between latitudes 41° and 82° N, and longitudes 19° E and 169° W, extending some 9000 km east to west, and 2500 to 4000 km north to south.

Central Asia

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Subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north.

Expanded definition of Central Asia. Core definition that includes the five post-Soviet states in dark green. Afghanistan, the most commonly added country to Central Asia, in green.

Three sets of possible boundaries for the Central Asia region (which overlap with conceptions of South and East Asia).

On the southern shore of Issyk Kul lake, Issyk Kul Region.

Central Asia map of Köppen climate classification.

Iranian-speaking people circa 170 BC. Eastern Iranian languages are in orange, Western Iranian languages are in red.

The Chinese Tang dynasty at its greatest extension, controlling large parts of Central Asia.

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, 1979

Saadi Shirazi is welcomed by a youth from Kashgar during a forum in Bukhara.

Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi in Hazrat-e Turkestan, Kazakhstan. Timurid architecture consisted of Persian art.

GDP growth trends in Central Asia, 2000–2013. Source: UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030 (2015), Figure 14.1

GDP in Central Asia by economic sector, 2005 and 2013. Source: UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030, Figure 14.2

GDP per capita development in Central Asia, since 1973

Trends in research expenditure in Central Asia, as a percentage of GDP, 2001–2013. Source: UNESCO Science Report: 2030 (2015), Figure 14.3

Central Asian researchers by sector of employment (HC), 2013. Source: UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030 (2015), Figure 14.5

Central Asian researchers by field of science, 2013. Source: UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030 (2015), Figure 14.4

Scientific publications from Central Asia catalogued by Thomson Reuters' Web of Science, Science Citation Index Expanded, 2005–2014, UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030 (2015), Figure 14.6

Cumulative total of articles by Central Asians between 2008 and 2013, by field of science. Source: UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030 (2015), Figure 14.6

Ethnic map of Central Asia.
White areas are thinly-populated semi-desert.
The three northwest-tending lines are the Syr Darya and Amu Darya Rivers flowing from the eastern mountains into the Aral Sea and in the south the irrigated north side of the Kopet Dagh mountains.

Tartar prostrating before Qianlong Emperor of China (1757).

Political cartoon from the period of the Great Game showing the Afghan Amir Sher Ali with his "friends" Imperial Russia and the United Kingdom (1878)

Islam Karimov (President, Uzbekistan) in the Pentagon, March 2002

These included the Hun invasion of Europe, the Wu Hu attacks on China and most notably the Mongol conquest of much of Eurasia.

Kazakhstan is also one of the three founding members of the Eurasian Economic Union in 2014, along with Belarus and the Russian Federation.

Armenia

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Landlocked country located in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.

Armenian soldier of the Achaemenid army, circa 470 BC. Xerxes I tomb relief.

The pagan Garni Temple, probably built in the first century, is the only "Greco-Roman colonnaded building" in the post-Soviet states

The Etchmiadzin Cathedral, Armenia's Mother Church traditionally dated 303 AD, is considered the oldest cathedral in the world.

The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, 1198–1375.

In 1501–02, most of the Eastern Armenian territories including Yerevan were conquered by the emerging Safavid dynasty of Iran led by Shah Ismail I.

Capture of Erivan fortress by Russian troops in 1827 during the Russo-Persian War (1826–28) by Franz Roubaud.

The Government house of the First Republic of Armenia (1918–1920).

Advance of the 11th Red Army into the city of Yerevan.

The coat of arms of Soviet Armenia depicting Mount Ararat in the centre.

Armenians gather at Theater Square in central Yerevan to claim unification of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast with the Armenian SSR.

Armenian soldiers in 2008, during the ongoing and unresolved Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

21 September 2011 parade in Yerevan, marking the 20th anniversary of Armenia's re-independence.

Armenia's mountainous and volcanic topography.

Köppen-Geiger climate classification map for Armenia.

Carbon dioxide emissions in metric tons per capita in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, Germany, Italy, USA in 2000–2012. World Bank data.

U.S. Secretary Mike Pompeo with Armenian President Armen Sarkissian

Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at Armenian Genocide memorial in Yerevan.

Armenian Air Force Su-25s during a military parade.

In April 2018, a quasi-authoritarian regime collapsed as a result of a nationwide protest movement in Armenia

A proportional representation of Armenia exports, 2019

Yerevan is the economic and cultural centre of Armenia.

Gross domestic expenditure on R&D (GERD)to GDP ratio for the Black Sea countries, 2001–2013. Source: UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030 (2015), Figure 12.3

GERD in the Black Sea region by sector of performance, 2005 and 2013. Source: UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030 (2015), Figure 12.5

The Armenian population around the world

'''Historical and modern distribution of Armenians.
'''Settlement area of Armenians in early 20th century:

Portal to the Holy City at Echmiazin, the seat of the Catholicos

The 7th-century Khor Virap monastery in the shadow of Mount Ararat, the peak on which Noah's Ark is said to have landed during the biblical flood.

The Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium in Yerevan

The Armenia national football team in Dublin, Ireland

Chess Grandmaster Levon Aronian is a former FIDE No. 2 rated player and the fourth highest rated player in history.

Ancient Armenian Khachkars (cross-stones)

Queen Zabel's Return to the Palace, Vardges Sureniants (1909)

Armenia is also a member of certain regional groups throughout Eurasia, including the Asian Development Bank, the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the Eurasian Union, and the Eurasian Development Bank.

Statue representing Europa at Palazzo Ferreria, in Valletta, Malta

Europe

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First map of the world according to Anaximander (6th century BC)

A medieval T and O map printed by Günther Zainer in 1472, showing the three continents as domains of the sons of Noah — Asia to Sem (Shem), Europe to Iafeth (Japheth) and Africa to Cham (Ham)

A New Map of Europe According to the Newest Observations (1721) by Hermann Moll draws the eastern boundary of Europe along the Don River flowing south-west and the Tobol, Irtysh and Ob rivers flowing north

1916 political map of Europe showing most of Moll's waterways replaced by von Strahlenberg's Ural Mountains and Freshfield's Caucasus Crest, land features of a type that normally defines a subcontinent

Paleolithic cave paintings from Lascaux in France ( 15,000 BCE)

Stonehenge in the United Kingdom (Late Neolithic from 3000 to 2000 BCE).

Animation showing the growth and division of the Roman Empire (years CE)

Viking raids and division of the Frankish Empire at the Treaty of Verdun in 843

The maritime republics of medieval Italy reestablished contacts between Europe, Asia and Africa with extensive trade networks and colonies across the Mediterranean, and had an essential role in the Crusades.

Tancred of Sicily and Philip II of France, during the Third Crusade (1189–1192)

The sacking of Suzdal by Batu Khan in 1238, during the Mongol invasion of Europe.

The School of Athens by Raphael (1511): Contemporaries, such as Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci (centre), are portrayed as classical scholars of the Renaissance.

Habsburg dominions in the centuries following their partition by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. The principal military base of Philip II in Europe was the Spanish road stretching from the Netherlands to the Duchy of Milan.

The national boundaries within Europe set by the Congress of Vienna

Marshall's Temple Works (1840), the Industrial Revolution started in Great Britain

Map of European colonial empires throughout the world in 1914.

Map depicting the military alliances of World War I in 1914–1918

Serbian war efforts (1914–1918) cost the country one quarter of its population.

Nazi Germany began a devastating World War II in Europe by its leader, Adolf Hitler. Here Hitler, on the right, with his closest ally, the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, in 1940

Bombed and burned-out buildings in Hamburg, 1944/45

The "Big Three" at the Yalta Conference in 1945; seated (from the left): Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin

The Schuman Declaration led to the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community. It began the integration process of the European Union (9 May 1950, at the French Foreign Ministry).

Flag of Europe, adopted by the Council of Europe in 1955 as the flag for the whole of Europe

Map of populous Europe and surrounding regions showing physical, political and population characteristics, as per 2018

Köppen-Geiger climate classification map for Europe.

The Volga, as seen in Yaroslavl. It flows from Central Russia and into the Caspian Sea and is the longest river in Europe.

Mount Elbrus in Southern Russia, is the highest mountain in Europe.

Europa Point as seen from the Strait of Gibraltar, which separates the continents of Europe and Africa, also being between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.

The Danube, as seen in Đerdap National Park. It flows from the Black Forest and into the Black Sea and is the second-longest river in Europe, which also passes through the largest number of countries in the world at 10.

Sutjeska National Park contains Perućica, which is one of the last remaining primeval forests in Europe.

Land use map of Europe with arable farmland (yellow), forest (dark green), pasture (light green) and tundra, or bogs, in the north (dark yellow)

Floristic regions of Europe and neighbouring areas, according to Wolfgang Frey and Rainer Lösch

Biogeographic regions of Europe and bordering regions

A brown bear near the Russian border in the forests of Kainuu, Finland

Once roaming the great temperate forests of Eurasia, European bison now live in nature preserves in Białowieża Forest, on the border between Poland and Belarus.

One of Kosovo's main economical sources is mining, because it has large reserves of lead, zinc, silver, nickel, cobalt, copper, iron and bauxite. Miners at the Trepča Mines in Mitrovica, Kosovo in 2011.

Population growth in and around Europe in 2021

Map purportedly displaying the European continent split along cultural and state borders as proposed by the German organization Ständiger Ausschuss für geographische Namen (StAGN).

Tallinn, the medieval capital of Estonia in the Baltic States, is a mixture of Western and Eastern architectural cultures.

Europe is a landmass, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a subcontinent of Eurasia, located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

More recently, the Eurasian Economic Union has been established as a counterpart comprising former Soviet states.

Minsk

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Capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers.

Independence Square in the centre of Minsk.

The Saviour Church, built under the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1577, is part of an archaeological preservation in Zaslavl, 23 km northwest of Minsk.

Church of Sts. Peter and Paul (Russian Orthodox).

Orthodox church of St. Mary Magdalene (built in 1847)

Belarusian national flag over the building of the People's Secretariat of the Belarusian People's Republic

Meeting in the Kurapaty woods, 1989, where between 1937 and 1941 from 30,000 to 250,000 Belarusian intelligentsia members were murdered by the NKVD during the Great Purge

Children during the German bombing of Minsk on 24 June 1941.

Railway Station Square, an example of Stalinist Minsk architecture.

Independence Avenue (Initial part of avenue candidates for inclusion in World Heritage Site).

Starascinskaja Slabada Squareon the Svislač River.

Jewish Holocaust memorial "The Pit" in Minsk.

Chinese signage, Minsk railway station (2018).

Police during the 2020–21 Belarusian protests.

2020–21 Belarusian protests — Minsk, 30 August 2020.

Outside view of the Dinamo National Olympic Stadium, 2019.

Dinamo National Olympic Stadium (after reconstruction).

Stadler Astra train, Minsk train station.

Church of St. Mary Magdalene (Russian Orthodox).

Church of Exaltation of the Holy Cross (Roman Catholic).

Church of Holy Trinity (Saint Rochus) (Roman Catholic).

Church of All Saints (Russian Orthodox).

Church of St.Yevfrosinya of Polotsk (Russian Orthodox).

Church of St. Elisabeth Convent (Russian Orthodox)

Church of St.Joseph (formerly Uniate, used as an archive).

Cathedral of Saint Virgin Mary (Roman Catholic).

Minsk Cathedral of the Holy Spirit (Russian Orthodox).

Faculty of International Relations, Belarusian State University.

Belarus State University rector's office.

Minsk is one of the administrative capitals of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU).

Minsk has a warm summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) though unpredictable many a times, owing to its location between the strong influence of the moist air of the Atlantic Ocean and the dry air of the Eurasian landmass.