ABSTRACT
In the context of Soviet Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) policy, the key concept "common CMEA market" appears as a central reference point for a series of measures that concern the reorganization of the forms and methods of intra-CMEA cooperation as well as the organization of CMEA itself. New CMEA Committees were created on cooperation in foreign trade, electronification, and agro-industrial complexes, in addition to the Standing Commissions on electroenergy and nuclear energy, environmental protection, and legal matters. In regard to the scientific-technical cooperation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics with the CMEA states in the framework of the Complex Program till 2000, from early 1986 the balance-sheet shows that this "Eureka of the East" has landed in a stalemate. In plain political language, it meant an obligation on the part of the European CMEA states to provide extensive aid within bilateral and multilateral frameworks.
