The reasons for the resounding disappointment surrounding the Eurasian Unions unveiling are myriad, and have already been covered in stark detail within the Crossroads Asia vertical. The Eurasian Union was largely a non-starter as soon as Ukraine pulled out from the project, but its struggles have continued unabated. Belarus and Russia have yet to resolve their customs disputes effectively nullifying the primary purpose of the customs union as a whole and, in the days leading up to the EEUs formalization, called Russias barring of certain Belarusian products stupid and brainless. Meanwhile, while customs struggles continue to separate Minsk and Moscow, it seems there will be no customs checkpoints between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh despite the wishes of Kazakhstan, which had previously called out Yerevan for not securing its customs borders. That is to say, within the Eurasian Union, customs debacles continue between two of the founding members, but have been removed between one of the member states and an unrecognized statelet within a nation outside the EEUs auspices. Not exactly the best way to build confidence in the organizations efficacy.
