Former EU COM delegation head Michael Emerson has published couple interesting papers about Ukraine. Maybe Firn can comment the economical aspects of those association agreements and DCFTA. Emerson says that it all started as trade war and for deescalation all sides must solve that issue.
http://www.ceps.be/ceps/dld/8820/pdf
http://www.ceps.be/ceps/dld/8973/pdf
Ukraine is really devided country as those graphics in previous pages have showed. Here is surevey about EU AA/DCFTA and Customs union.
http://www.dw.de/ukrainian-support-f...nes/a-17189085
Next "interesting" place will be Moldova (where Russia has same kind of levers like in Ukraine) and their EU AA agreement.
http://www.cepolicy.org/news/eu-acce...mong-moldovans
One more interesting poll.
Integration with Russia into a single state is supported by 12% of respondents in Ukraine, and during recent years this number has decreased from 20% to 9%, but after Maidan – increased by 3%. The main part of supporters of this idea of unification with Russia is in the East (26%) and South (19%), while the smallest part is in the Center (5%) and West (1%) of Ukraine. By regions majority of integration with Russia in one state is in Crimea (41%), Donetsk district (33%), Lugansk district (24%), Odessa district (24%), Zaporizhzhya (17%) and Kharkiv (15%) districts, but even there support to the current status of relations with Russia - as two independent and friendly states – prevails
http://www.kiis.com.ua/?lang=eng&cat=news&id=237&page=1
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