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Leaders of Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Armenia have signed a treaty that will make Erevan a new member of the Eurasian Economic Union, a free trade zone made up of former Soviet states to rival the European Union.
The deal was signed Friday at the summit of the Eurasian Economic Union in Minsk.