Eurasian Integration Yearbook 2012

The Economics of the Post-Sovietand Eurasian Integration• Two countries, Azerbaijan and Georgia, feel an affinity primarily with therest of the world, on the aggregate factors.Legend:% Index with thehighest value of three% Index with thesecond-highest valueof three% Index with thelowest value of three• Within the post-Soviet space, Ukraine and Russia are the two countriesof highest interest for the citizens of other countries of the former SovietUnion. In contrast, in Ukraine and Russia the population appeared to beoriented not towards the post-Soviet space, but primarily to the EuropeanUnion.The data evidencing the conclusions mentioned above are given in below(average values of indexes). An illustrative scheme of the countries’ distributionon geopolitical vectors based on the table data is given in next figure 9.1.Average values of indexesAzerbaijanArmeniaBelarusGeorgiaKazakhstanKyrgyzstanMoldovaRussiaTajikistanUzbekistanUkraineAverageEconomy“Former USSR countries”Cluster“European Union Countries”Cluster0.22 0.29 0.26 0.18 0.34 0.42 0.35 0.12 0.42 0.31 0.21 0.280.23 0.30 0.32 0.36 0.22 0.18 0.36 0.36 0.13 0.21 0.35 0.27“Other countries” Cluster 0.41 0.23 0.30 0.36 0.34 0.35 0.21 0.32 0.41 0.37 0.27 0.32Politics“Former USSR countries”Cluster“European Union Countries”Cluster0.48 0.63 0.67 0.33 0.69 0.54 0.49 0.49 0.66 0.63 0.52 0.560.05 0.20 0.06 0.12 0.09 0.03 0.26 0.17 0.09 0.08 0.18 0.12“Other countries” Cluster 0.38 0.07 0.19 0.38 0.16 0.18 0.08 0.21 0.22 0.22 0.16 0.20Culture“Former USSR countries”Cluster“European Union Countries”Cluster0.19 0.25 0.25 0.11 0.35 0.36 0.32 0.09 0.37 0.20 0.17 0.240.23 0.35 0.31 0.48 0.20 0.21 0.40 0.31 0.18 0.23 0.33 0.29“Other countries” Cluster 0.38 0.15 0.20 0.33 0.28 0.34 0.18 0.22 0.39 0.35 0.18 0.27General indexes of attraction“Former USSR countries”Cluster“European Union Countries”Cluster0.27 0.36 0.35 0.20 0.42 0.43 0.37 0.20 0.46 0.36 0.27 0.340.19 0.29 0.26 0.33 0.19 0.15 0.34 0.31 0.13 0.18 0.30 0.24“Other countries” Cluster 0.39 0.18 0.25 0.36 0.28 0.31 0.18 0.27 0.36 0.33 0.23 0.29156 EDB Eurasian Integration Yearbook 2012