Happy New Mini-USSR

Russia Is Recreating the Soviet Union, One Little Step at a Time By Tai Adelaja Russia Profile 01/04/2012 With anger still simmering over Russia's fraud-tainted December elections, many Russians are unlikely to notice that their country has been ushered into a new economic space starting January 1. On New Year’s Day, the Single Economic Space (SES) between Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus formally came into effect. The SES is expected to facilitate the free movement of goods, labor and capital within member-states, according to proponents of the project. http://russiaprofile.org/business/52457.html