I am interested in how the lives of ordinary people in Ukraine and Russia will improve specifically after the unification (if I understood you correctly, and you meant ordinary people)? At whose expense? Is there a development plan?
1) Simplification of trade - abolition of duties, abolition of customs restrictions, reduction of paperwork.
2) Lowering prices for gas and other export goods reduces production costs.
3) Simplification of relocation and employment, reduction of bureaucratic procedures in this regard.
4) A single currency reduces losses and delays in conversion, simplifies bill payments, and reduces risks caused by exchange rate fluctuations.
5) The absence of inspections at the border reduces logistics costs and reduces the time for transporting people and goods.
6) For a number of goods, it is not necessary to build separate factories in each state, but to use one factory that serves the entire country. Reduction of costs due to production volume.
7) Reduction of expenses on the state apparatus - duplicate ministries, consulates, etc. become unnecessary.
That is, this is not manna from heaven that falls into your hands by itself, but an optimization of economic processes that increases the efficiency of doing business, thereby increasing well-being.
8) Absence of Maidan protests. I understand that for some this is a plus, but for the economy it is objectively a minus.
Points 1-6 - yes, it is effective, but for ordinary people, salaries will increase by about 5%, and it will be most effective for large businesses and companies of national scale, where people are pawns performing one or two effective operations a day.
Point 7 is not very important, and point 8 can happen at any time.
How to calculate how effective a business is for the country? Simple figures on the structure of the business: in Ukraine, large companies account for 90% of GDP, and small and medium-sized businesses are lagging behind (at the Maidan), while in the West, small and medium-sized businesses account for 65% of GDP. It is SMEs that form the middle class, which we essentially do not have; only about 2-3% can claim this status, and another 30% have been trying to break through for many years. SMEs do not need to travel across borders and produce parts at one factory in the CIS. Hence the question - is the strengthening of transnational corporations a way to improve the well-being of Ukraine? The answer is a definite no. The rich will get richer, and the poor will remain poor.
