Overview

• At a Geneva roundtable on the EAEU’s 10th anniversary, envoy Gennady Gatilov framed the bloc’s integration record as a success supported by official trade metrics.
• Russia’s mutual trade with EAEU members more than doubled from 2015 to 2024, according to figures presented at the event.
• The EAEU share of Russia’s external trade rose from 8.2% in 2015 to 13.2% in 2024, while countries covered by EAEU trade agreements reached 36.3% of Russia’s trade in 2023, up from 13.9% in 2015.
• Gatilov cited gains in Russia’s turnover with key partners, including increases of 3.6 times with China, 3.2 with Iran, 1.3 with Vietnam and 1.4 with Serbia over the cited period.
• He outlined citizen-level benefits from integration—wider access to safe, affordable goods, labor mobility, mutual recognition of credentials and pensions—attributed to harmonized sanitary, technical and customs rules plus digitalized procedures, and he urged joint analytical work on the digital economy, sustainable investment, trade barriers and structural transformation.