EUROASIAN ECONOMIC INTEGRATION: PROSPECTS OF COOPERATION OF RUSSIA AND KAZAKHSTAN
The subject of research in this article are the prospects for integration of relations between Russia and Kazakhstan in the framework of the Customs Union and the Common Economic Space, the Eurasian Economic Union. The purpose of research is the assess the possible positive and negative effects of integration in both the short and the long run in terms of different market subjects: government, business organizations and individual citizens. Based on the analysis of existing prerequisites of integration, the evolution of Russian-Kazakh relations, as well as the prevailing geopolitical conditions, concluded that the deepening of integration processes in the territory of the of the countries is important not only in terms of economic development, but also of political independence.