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Not to be confused with Commonwealth of Nations.

The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)[a]

is a regional intergovernmental organization in Eastern
Europe, Central Asia, North Asia, and Western Asia. It
was formed following the dissolution of the Soviet
Union in 1991. It covers an area of 20,368,759 km2
(7,864,422 sq mi) and has an estimated population of
239,796,010. The CIS encourages cooperation in
economic, political and military affairs and has certain
powers relating to the coordination of trade, finance,
lawmaking, and security. It has also promoted
cooperation on cross-border crime prevention. Often
considered as the successors of the USSR, it is one of
the largest intergovernmental organizations in Europe.

Commonwealth
of Independent States
Содружество Независимых Государств
Sodruzhestvo Nezavisimykh Gosudarstv

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     Member states      Disputed territory[1]

     Associate state

Administrative seats Minsk • Moscow

Largest city Moscow

Working language Russian

Type Intergovernmental

Membership 9 member states

 Armenia
 Azerbaijan
 Belarus
 Kazakhstan
 Kyrgyzstan
 Moldova
 Russia
 Tajikistan
 Uzbekistan
1 associate state
 Turkmenistan
1 observer state
 Mongolia[2]

Leaders
• Executive-Secretary Sergey Lebedev
• Chairperson Valentina Matviyenko
• Chair Kazakhstan
Legislature Interparliamentary
Assembly[3]

Establishment
• Belavezha Accords 8 December 1991
• Alma-Ata Protocol 21 December 1991
• Charter adopted 22 January 1993
• Free Trade Area 20 September 2012
Area
• Total 20,368,759[4] km2
(7,864,422 sq mi)

Population
• 2018 estimate 236,446,000
(excluding Crimea)
• Density 11.77/km2 (30.5/sq mi)

GDP (PPP) 2022 estimate
• Total $5.5 trillion
• Per capita $22,500(approx.)

GDP (nominal) 2022 estimate
• Total $2.5 trillion
• Per capita $9,000(approx.)

HDI (2017) 0.740
high

Currency No common currencya

Member states
Armenian dram (֏)
Azerbaijani manat (₼)
Belarusian rubel (Rbl)
Kazakhstani tenge (₸)
Kyrgyzstani som ( )
Moldovan leu (Leu/Lei)
Russian rouble (₽)
Tajikistani somoni (SM)
Uzbekistani soum
(soum)
Associate state
Turkmenistani manat (m)

Time zone UTC+2 to +12

Driving side right

Internet TLD .ru, .by, .am, .kz, .kg, .az,

.md, .tj, .uz

Website
e-cis.info
a
Soviet ruble (руб) used from 1991 to 1994

When the Soviet Union began to fall, the founding

republics signed the Belavezha Accords on 8
December 1991, declaring that the Union would cease
to exist and proclaimed the CIS in its place. A few days
later the Alma-Ata Protocol was signed, which
declared that the Soviet Union was dissolved. The
Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), which
regard their membership in the Soviet Union as an
illegal occupation, chose not to participate. Georgia
withdrew its membership in 2008 following the Russo-
Georgian War. Ukraine formally ended its participation
in CIS statutory bodies in 2018, although it had
stopped participating in the organization much earlier.
[5][6][7]

Eight of the nine CIS member states participate in the

CIS Free Trade Area. Three organizations originated
from the CIS, namely the Collective Security Treaty
Organization, the Eurasian Economic Union (alongside
subdivisions, the Eurasian Customs Union and the
Eurasian Economic Space); and the Union State. While
the first and the second are military and economic
alliances, the third aims to reach a supranational union
of Russia and Belarus with a common government,
currency, and so on.

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History

Membership

Politics

Human rights

Military

Economy

Associated organisations

Other activities

See also

Notes

References

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