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The leaders of Kazakhstan, Russia, and Belarus signed a treaty establishing the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU also known as the Eurasian Union, EAU) in Astana on29 May. In October 2014 Armenia joined the Union. The main objectives of the EEU are to create a common market, to remove barriers to the movement of goods, services, investment, and labour, and to implement coherent economic policy aimed at efficient business environment. The EEU could also play a role of an efficient «link» between Europe and dynamic Asia-Pacific region. Russian is the working language of the Union under Article 110 of the Treaty, however, official languages of member states will be equally used in key agreements. All EEU documents are supposed to be translated from Russian into other languages of the Union at the expense of the EEU, ensuring high quality of translation. In this context it is feasible to create a language service ensuring translation and interpretation within the EEU as well as communication with the rest of the world. This task provides for training of interpreters and translators able to solve internal and external communication tasks of the Union. Operation of EEU language services and training of interpreters and translators may be based on a great experience of similar services in the EU. The health of the Union and its perspective expansion largely depends on language policy and ability to integrate new participants preserving their right to language identity.