MOSCOW - It won't exactly mean going back to the USSR, but Vladimir Putin is laying the foundations of a huge trading bloc which opponents see as an attempt to recreate at least part of the lost Soviet empire.
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The Russian president Vladimir Putin and the leaders of two other former Soviet republics, Belarus and Kazakhstan, will sign a treaty on May 29 uniting countries in a Eurasian Economic Union.
