{"id":6100,"date":"2026-05-27T16:24:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=6100"},"modified":"2026-05-29T13:47:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:47:00","slug":"post-soviet-bloc-emerging-as-economic-center-of-multipolar-world-russian-deputy-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/post-soviet-bloc-emerging-as-economic-center-of-multipolar-world-russian-deputy-fm\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Soviet bloc emerging as \u2018economic center of multipolar world\u2019 \u2013 Russian deputy FM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Eurasian Economic Union is shifting toward the Global South as cooperation with Western states declines, Aleksandr Pankin has told RT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) is seeing steady growth and shifting its economic ties toward greater integration among member states and closer cooperation with the Global South, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Pankin said in an interview with RT.<\/p>\n<p>The deputy foreign minister said intra-EAEU trade reached $95 billion last year, nearly double what it was in 2014, before the union was established. He also pointed to strong growth in trade with external partners, saying turnover in 2025 had grown about 90% with Vietnam, 170% with Iran, and more than doubled with China.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe union plays a defining role in its member states\u2019 economic growth as part of its international dimension,\u201d<\/em> he said stressing that its real GDP grew 1.7% last year, <em>\u201cwhich is not bad at all given the circumstances.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pankin said Western sanctions had served as a <em>\u201cstress test\u201d<\/em> for the EAEU, pushing the bloc to diversify trade, develop new logistics routes and boost technological and economic self-sufficiency. He said the measures had made the union more resilient and less dependent on external partners.<\/p>\n<p>\n        <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/640478-partnership-russia-great-interest-many-countries-reshetnikov\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n            <span>READ MORE: <\/span>Partnership with Russia of \u2018great interest\u2019 to many countries \u2013 minister<br \/>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<p>The official believes the bloc was shifting its economic ties toward the Global South as the share of Western countries in its trade declined. He pointed to Asia, Africa and Latin America as key areas of focus, highlighting closer cooperation with China, ongoing talks with India, and expanding ties with Iran, Vietnam, the UAE and Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>Pankin said the EAEU was becoming <em>\u201can important economic center in a multipolar world,\u201d<\/em> with ties extending beyond trade to cooperation with organizations including the United Nations, SCO and ASEAN. He added that the bloc has signed more than 80 memorandums with international partners, mainly from the Global South.<\/p>\n<p>See the full interview below<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eurasian Economic Union is shifting toward the Global South as cooperation with Western states declines, Aleksandr Pankin has told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6101,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100\/revisions\/6101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}