Russia's 'Eurasian Union' Shows Putin's Nostalgia For The Soviet Union

"It is like you've been dating a girl for a long time," grins Pavel Andreev, an editor at a state-controlled broadcaster, Rossiya Segodnya, explaining why it has taken so long to press ahead with the Eurasian Union. "You've met the parents, you've spent a weekend with the families, and now you want to get engaged...Eurasian integration has been painfully slow, but it's moving forward." Often seen as an artefact of Vladimir Putin's nostalgia for the Soviet Union, the Eurasian Union has been large...