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Putin's dream " Eurasian Union"

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Eurasian Economic Union is the Russian-led economic alliance consisting of four countries such as Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, and Armenia while Kyrgyzstan is scheduled to join this economic union in May 2015.   Actually, the president of Russia  Vladimir Putin  has already claimed that the establishment of Eurasian union is his foreign policy priority when he served as Russia's prime minister in 2011, and he intends to bring back the Soviet Union in years to come by convincing other former states of Soviet Union to join his proposed alliance. Russia is now welcome and opens the door for all former Soviet states as well as Baltic and Balkan states to integrate into this customs union. However, Russian led-customs union is seen weaker economically comparing to other unions, and there are many issues that this union has to address. Russia has to do much more in order to build up the strong union as the same as Soviet Union especially it needs to put more effort

Freedom of Expression and Media Rights in Myanmar Three Years after Reforms

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It has been almost 3 years after Myanmar military junta transferred power to civilian government in 2011. Chronologically, Myanmar had been ruled by military government for almost 5 dec ades after Burmese generals staged a coupe in 1962, ended the democratic regime. Actually, during the military rule human rights were severely abused. As a matter of fact, people's fundamental rights and freedoms, particularly freedom of expression and media rights had been largely restricted by the government. Myanmar's junta decided to implement the policies and laws which regulated strictly and monitored closely on any of its people's activities in order to prevent the threat to the survival of the dictatorial government in the country. Importantly, freedom of expression and press were not guaranteed by laws and constitution of the country, and every publication includes newspaper was censored by the military regime. Moreover, any people who criticized the military rule and its off