CIS countries should unite in order to resist the vast media and sanction pressure from the West, which is aimed at hampering the integration in Eurasia, a Russian senator says.
“Today the area of totalitarian manipulation of the media
extends to the Eurasian integration. We are experiencing massive
information and sanction pressure [from the West],” Vladimir
Dzhabarov, deputy head of the International Affairs Committee in
the Federal Council, is cited by Gazeta.ru.
According to Dzhabarov, the Western powers want to disturb the
creation of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) between Russia,
Belarus, Kazakhstan and Armenia.
“We didn’t interfere with them when they put together the EU,
but they keep interfering with us,” he stressed.
The senator also called for the creation of a special information
center to counter US and EU information plots within the
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), which unites nine
former republics of the Soviet Union.
The treaty to form the Eurasian Economic Union was signed earlier
this year, with the new bloc to go into effect on January 1,
2015.
The EEU will create a single economic market of 171 million
people and is expected to gross domestic product of $3 trillion.
In recent months, the US and EU have implemented several waves of
sanctions against Russia, which targeted not only individual
politicians and businessmen, but also the country’s financial,
energy and defense sectors.
The West accuses Russia of masterminding the current turmoil in
Ukraine, widely using mass media to ignite anti-Russian moods
despite being unable to provide any significant proof.