Russia rejects claims it wants to rebuild Soviet empire

Russia's President Vladimir Putin is hosting leaders of five other ex-Soviet nations for economic and security talks.

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Wednesday, 19.12.2012.

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MOSCOW Russia's President Vladimir Putin is hosting leaders of five other ex-Soviet nations for economic and security talks. The Kremlin has rejected U.S. claims it wants to rebuild the Soviet empire. Russia rejects claims it wants to rebuild Soviet empire Putin is meeting Wednesday in the Kremlin with the leaders of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, which are members of the Moscow-dominated Collective Security Treaty Organization, AP has reported. Russia sees the Collective Security Treaty Organization as a response of the former Soviet states to NATO, but the organization remains amorphous and plagued by internal differences. Members created a joint rapid reaction force that held sporadic exercises, but its numbers were small and its mission vague. The CSTO meeting was followed by economic talks between leaders of the same countries, except for Armenia, which are also members of the Eurasian Economic Community. Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejected U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's recent claim that the Russian-led alliances represented an attempt to restore the Soviet empire. Peskov described the integration efforts of Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kirgizia and Tajikistan as a natural response to global market upheavals. “In a world where the smell of crisis is around us constantly, the only viable trend is the trend for integration, the integration processes,” he told the state TV. “To associate the natural processes that are maturing throughout the former Soviet space with attempts at Sovietization means failing to understand practically anything about what is happening in the former Soviet space,” Peskov added. Putin has described the existing economic and security groupings as precursors to a stronger Eurasian Union, which he pledged to form by 2015. Vladimir Putin (Beta/AP, file) Beta

Russia rejects claims it wants to rebuild Soviet empire

Putin is meeting Wednesday in the Kremlin with the leaders of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, which are members of the Moscow-dominated Collective Security Treaty Organization, AP has reported.

Russia sees the Collective Security Treaty Organization as a response of the former Soviet states to NATO, but the organization remains amorphous and plagued by internal differences.

Members created a joint rapid reaction force that held sporadic exercises, but its numbers were small and its mission vague.

The CSTO meeting was followed by economic talks between leaders of the same countries, except for Armenia, which are also members of the Eurasian Economic Community.

Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejected U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's recent claim that the Russian-led alliances represented an attempt to restore the Soviet empire.

Peskov described the integration efforts of Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kirgizia and Tajikistan as a natural response to global market upheavals.

“In a world where the smell of crisis is around us constantly, the only viable trend is the trend for integration, the integration processes,” he told the state TV.

“To associate the natural processes that are maturing throughout the former Soviet space with attempts at Sovietization means failing to understand practically anything about what is happening in the former Soviet space,” Peskov added.

Putin has described the existing economic and security groupings as precursors to a stronger Eurasian Union, which he pledged to form by 2015.

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