20 Roubles 10 Years of EurAsEC

The Eurasian Economic Community was established by treaty in October 2000, grouping Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan into a customs and trade bloc explicitly modeled on early European integration frameworks. Belarus was among the most enthusiastic founding members, a posture driven largely by its deep economic dependence on Russian energy subsidies and preferential trade access. This coin marks the bloc's first decade — by which point Uzbekistan had already suspended its membership and the organization was quietly being restructured toward what would become the Eurasian Economic Union by 2015.