Maidan

i think is better we take also russia into the EU , it help to give stability to russia and to take us away from american domination

And who would be the logical leader of such a block? Muscovy? Such dreams are still harboured by Russia's 'superior culture'. It is time that the world wised up to such tactics - sheepish dialectic logic shrouded in a cloak of Muscovite chauvanism...

The reasons Eastern European countries countries wanted to join the EU was they could see that it brought economic growth and stability. They could see a law-respecting, transparent and democratic society. That sort of union is wealthy and can buy its resource from anywhere.

Personally I don't see a union of slav nations currently providing that, if Russia Ukraine and Belarus are anything to go by. Even the resources don't get distributed fairly in Russia so what sort of a model is that for others to join.

Of course there is nothing wrong with different economic blocs being formed and whoever benefits is welcome to to join them. But political or resource blackmail is not a good way of getting countries to join.

indeed, nations unite not over resources but values. certain linguistic similarities that's all there is to it. the differences in culture, religion, history and political orientation are far bigger. in the 21st century the slavic peoples remain as diverse in fact as they always were, and there is nothing wrong with it.

and it's tru that that's russia primarily who consistently tried to bring the slavic nations together in various combinations (the final most modest one being the projected union of russia ukraine and belarus). the pro-russian trend was initially a possitive thing perhaps - depending of course on how you look at it (not from the turkish perspective of course). it helped the bulgarians and serbs to become independent nations. that historic pro-russian orientation is still reflected in the colors of several slavic flags. but now while russia is so clearly moving back to authoritarian if not totalitarian model it would be appalling to suggest such a thing to a newly independent democracy - such as ukraine

there was already a kinda slavic Eu - it was called differently though - do you remember? - it seems to me something like USSR, eh? seriously, this is an old dream of the russian tsars