ECONOMIC PROBLEMS LEAD TO "COLOR REVOLUTIONS"

ALMA-ATA, APRIL 21, (RIA Novosti's Olga Kovalenko) - Economic problems are the main cause of "color revolutions" on post-Soviet territory, Grigory Rapota, Secretary-General of the Eurasian Economic Community, noted.

Rapota addressed the fourth Eurasian media forum (that opened here today), saying that quite a few CIS countries mostly faced economic problems. "All-out poverty and the absence of a middle class that guarantees stability are the root cause of such problems," Rapota told his audience. Rapota is positive that the development of a cost-effective economy is a "key to untangling such complicated knots".

"Considering that accumulated internal problems are the root cause of such events ('color revolutions'), then one can say that the Eurasian Economic Community aims to solve these problems," Rapota added.

Rapota believes that the Eurasian Economic Community's assertion is impossible without a "civilized media space".

"It is hard to overestimate the highly important role of mass media bodies in the process of five-sided economic integration," Rapota stressed.

In his words, the creation of a common information space ranks among top-priority aspects of integration interaction between the Community's countries.

The Eurasian Economic Community comprises Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.