History of Eurasian integration | Part 1

In ancient times, on the territory of Eurasia in the regions of present-day Central and Central Asia, Southern Siberia, the Black Sea region, the Caucasus and the South of European Russia, there were large state formations of a number of peoples.

It is in this Eurasian area, according to the most common hypotheses, ancestral homelands of the Indo-Europeans are located (Slavs, Armenians, Ossetians, Tajiks, etc. belong to the Indo-European peoples), Turks (Kazakhs, Kirghiz, Tatars, Uzbeks, etc.) and Finno-Ugric peoples (Karelians, Mordvins, Udmurts, Mari, Komi, etc.). Scythians, Sarmatians, Huns, Turks, Khazars, Mongols created their state-empires in the space of Eurasia.

Since the 16th century, Russia became the largest state in the Eurasian space (in the 20th century followed by the Soviet Union). With the advent of Russia to Eurasia, it became possible to unite this most important geopolitical region on the basis of agriculture and industrial production, while the Eurasian traditions of cattle breeding and nomadic economy were largely preserved. The disintegration of the USSR in the 1990s disrupted the established economic ties, which led to a deep and prolonged socio-economic crisis, from which some post-Soviet states have not yet emerged. It is quite characteristic that Kazakhstan and some other Asian republics of the USSR opposed the collapse of the Soviet Union to the greatest extent.