Commonwealth of Independent States
Also known as CIS, Russia and the CIS, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States
regional organisation whose participating countries are former Soviet Republics
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The Commonwealth of Independent States is a regional organization made up of countries that were formerly part of the Soviet Union. It was created to help these newly independent nations cooperate with each other on matters of mutual interest after the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991.
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3,529 papers- Strategies to address non-communicable diseases in the Commonwealth of Independent States countries: a scoping review.Primary health care research & development · 2022Muratalieva E, Nendaz M, Beran DDOI: 10.1017/S1463423622000639
- Consensus on management of hepatitis C virus infection in resource-limited Ukraine and Commonwealth of Independent States regions.ReviewWorld journal of gastroenterology · 2019Colombo MG, Musabaev EI, Ismailov UY et al.DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v25.i29.3897
- Perinatal encephalopathy, the syndrome of intracranial hypertension and associated diagnostic labels in the Commonwealth of Independent States: a systematic review.Archives of disease in childhood · 2020Mustafayev R, Seyid-Mammadova T, Kennedy CR et al.DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2018-315994
- Health and health systems in the Commonwealth of Independent States.Review
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The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is a regional intergovernmental organisation of states in Eurasia. It was formed following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It covers an area of 20,368,759 km (7,864,422 sq mi) and has an estimated population of 246,200,194. The CIS encourages cooperation in economic, political, and military affairs and has certain powers related to the coordination of trade, finance, lawmaking, and security, including the prevention of cross-border crime.
As the USSR disintegrated, Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine signed the Belovezha Accords on 8 December 1991, declaring that the Union had effectively ceased to exist and proclaiming the CIS in its place. On 21 December, these three former Soviet republics and eight additional ones signed the Alma-Ata Protocol, which established the founding declarations and principles of the CIS. Georgia joined the CIS in 1993 but withdrew its membership in 2008 following a war with Russia. Ukraine formally ended its participation in CIS statutory bodies in 2018, although it had stopped participating in the organisation following the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea. Following Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Moldova started to withdraw from the CIS institutional framework, culminating in its denunciation of the CIS treaty, protocol, and charter on 8 April 2026.
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