August 6, 2008 - 14:20 AMT
Russia offers to form Western-European clone of EU
Russia offers to form an EU analog which will unite the RF, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Turkey, Moldova and some other states, said Sergei Markov, Russian State Duma member.

"We offer to create a united economic area like the European Union with a purpose of further expansion towards the EU," he said.

Implementing 'divide and rule' principle in the post soviet area, the U.S. strikes Kosovo and Ukraine, which are Europe's weak points, according to him.

"Their task is not an independent Ukraine but anti-Russian Ukraine. The U.S. wants relations between the two nations like those between Serbs and Croats," Markov said, Noviy Region reports.