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ENERGY AND PRIDEThere is no real incentive for Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan or Azerbaijan — each with vast oil and gas resources, each with authoritarian leaders — to enter a union with former imperial master Russia any time soon.At various times during their independence, these emerging energy giants have infuriated Moscow by courting the West and China, beats by dre securing billions of dollars in investment in return for promises of mineral riches.National pride also stands in the way of closer integration. Ukraine, the most populous ex-Soviet republic after Russia, relies heavily on Russian energy supplies and its economy is now about 70 percent of its size before the Soviet Union collapsed.But it has always treated with suspicion Russia’s proposals to re-integrate the former Soviet republics within the CIS.“Being on the western and southern rim of Russia, Ukraine, beats by dre studio Belarus, Georgia and Armenia would eventually like to integrate with the West, but also balance these close ties with Russia,“ said Lilit Gevorgyan, analyst at IHS Global Insight.Russia’s role in the various conflicts that have flared up on the fringes of the former Soviet Union is another key factor pushing some CIS members to reject a tighter union.Latecomer Georgia joined the beats by dre pro CIS in 1993, hoping membership of the Moscow-led grouping would help it resolve conflicts with the breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia lost to pro-Russian separatists in the early 1990s.But the Caucasus nation abruptly left the CIS after it fought a five-day war with Russia in August 2008 after Georgia tried to re-establish by force its control over South Ossetia.Moldova’s