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   From: Intelligent@savetheworldmsn.com   
      
   The Ukraine and the two new republics should consider Free Association:   
      
   This would include:   
      
   1.The right to Work.   
   2.The right to Reside.   
   3.Equal rights.   
   4.If Political rights.   
   5.And Human rights.   
      
   This would be possible, even if the two new republics decide to request   
   annexation   
   by Russia sometime in the future, which they may never do.  If so, two   
   possibilities would be that while both the Ukraine and Russia could use both   
   the   
   republics, people residing in the republics would have both the Ukraine and   
   Russia, if they had lived in the new republic for a period of years, or else   
   as of   
   a certain date and/or were descendants.   
      
   Perhaps in the future, the EU and the EAEU will each have each other anyway.   
   Russia is part of Europe, and not Arabia.  We are not nations of eternal war,   
   and   
   wish to see peace through a united Europe.   
      
      
   Norway and Iceland are not in the EU, but have a separate EFTA - European Free   
   Trade Association, which has the EU:   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Free_Trade_Association   
      
      
   The U.S. has a Compact of Free Association with the Marshall islands,   
   Micronesia,   
   and Palau:   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_of_Free_Association   
      
      
   Additionally, as a token of good will, the Russians can perhaps put Crimea in   
   Free   
   Association with the Ukraine as well.  Or, more extremely, the entirety of   
   Russia   
   could be in Free Association with the Ukraine, while the Ukraine joins the EU.   
   The   
   second idea would perhaps entail a little more border and immigration issues at   
   the Ukrainian borders.   
      
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