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paper, though it is better to say that even documentation on these projects lacks details. At
the same time, the US exists in the form of a pure ideological and media phenomenon, a
place for meetings of presidents of both countries who, from time to time, adhere to and
try to relieve debates over one of the three problems - the Constitution, the currency and
the gas transmission enterprise. Every time each one of these problem projects is used as
a means of blackmail, which lets to keep the situation under “controllable pressure”; the
lessening of the tense situation is perceived as a “step towards each other”.
Sergey Lavrov declares that “democratic principles cannot be developed from the
outside”. In terms of the existing US this statement can stand for the fact that democra-
tization can be done “from the inside”. As a matter of fact, the agreement signed in 1999
approves such democratization: “The United State is a secular, democratic and legal state
that accepts political and ideological variety, a multi-party system” (Article 5). “Complete
compliance with the principle of universal respect and observance of human rights and
fundamental freedoms in accordance with the rules of International law” is declared as
one of the primary goals of the US (Article 2) 12. In these terms, the fulfillment of cor-
responding obligations by both of the parties should not be treated as the imposing of
democracy “from the outside”. Thus, there is only one way to realize all the agreements
connected with the US, which is to make its participants full-fledged members of the
Euro-Atlantic community.
5. Instead of Epilogue
We tend to describe everything that happens within the borders of the post-Soviet
territory (that, let us remind, was the “successor” of the Soviet territories; today it actu-
ally consists of 6 countries, i.e. Armenia, Belarus, Kirghizia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Tajikistan);
as the process of disintegration by means of integration. If so, it means that, on the one
hand, each integration process leaves fewer participants, each time eliminating “outcasts”
and those who “failed to survive”, and on the other hand, it inherits the functions of
organizations-predecessors (which sometimes are the same organizations, but of an “old
type”). But it would be just half the truth.
Its second part then is that the participants who left the game are, first of all, those
who have already become emancipated enough to start their own national project,
choose their own perspectives making in such a way “the European choice”. In this case
we also have to deal with the process of emancipation by means of integration. Various
united projects let national sovereignties become mature enough to be perceived as they
are. In practical terms, the positive side of this partner and united (integrated) interaction
is that such a process of becoming mature is quite painless. On the one hand, it does not
lead to serious regional conflicts, and, on the other hand, the number of the “lost souls”
is minimized (it comes down to “countries which are outside of any unions”, namely
Korea, Cuba, Turkmenistan). Provided all the peculiarities of the situation are taken into
account.