{"id":14998,"date":"2020-04-30T19:30:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T15:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/?p=14998"},"modified":"2020-04-30T19:30:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T15:30:41","slug":"putin-it-is-natural-for-former-soviet-republics-to-increase-competitiveness-by-uniting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/putin-it-is-natural-for-former-soviet-republics-to-increase-competitiveness-by-uniting\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin: It is natural for former Soviet republics to increase competitiveness by uniting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Combining the efforts of the countries of the former Soviet Union will be beneficial for everyone, despite the phobias about the past regarding the restoration of the USSR. On October 1, 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a short interview, but this statement was broadcast for the first time.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOvercoming some phobias, overcoming fears about the revival of the Soviet empire, and understanding that the unification of efforts will be beneficial to all will inevitably pave the way for it. Realizing this advantage, and, this advantage is realized by all participants in this process, we will move forward, we will take new steps\u201d &#8211; said the Russian President<\/p>\n<p>Everywhere, where it is possible, the countries with their integration increase their own competitive abilities.\u00a0 For the former soviet republics, this would be absolutely natural \u2013 Putin indicated<\/p>\n<p>We have common inter-national, inter-state language for communication with each other &#8211;\u00a0 This is Russian. All countries speak Russian fluently and this is a great advantage\u00a0 for the integration. We have a common transport infrastructure, power energy,\u00a0\u00a0 communication systems left behind the disintegration, and\u00a0 this is another greatest advantage for\u00a0 the integration \u2013 the Russia\u2019s\u00a0 leader declared and added that\u00a0 all this will contribute to increase the level of competitiveness. As to \u201cresistance by our western colleagues, who up now did not want to speak with us on our economic, exactly on economic, not on military or political integration\u201d, they are just afraid of competition<\/p>\n<p>They do not want strengthening our competition, but we want it, because this is the way to the wellbeing of our people and, nothing is surprising here, except for we failed to go ahead in a manner we could, more effectively\u201d \u2013 Vladimir Putin said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Combining the efforts of the countries of the former Soviet Union will be beneficial for everyone, despite the phobias about the past regarding the restoration of the USSR. On October 1, 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a short interview, but this statement was broadcast for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15000,"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14998\/revisions\/15000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}