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President Vladimir Putin has called four problems that he thinks are obstructing the success of any integration process. \"If I were permitted to attend the session of the forum section on fundamental problems of integration associations I would very briefly formulate these problems in literally three-four phrases: great power chauvinism, nationalism, the personal ambitions of political decision- makers and ordinary stupidity, ordinary Neanderthal stupidity,\" he told an international forum on Eurasian integration in Astana on Friday. \"But we here are wise people,\" he told forum participants.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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