commonwealth of independent states in English

noun
1
a confederation of independent states that were formerly constituent republics of the Soviet Union, established in 1991. Member states are Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

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1. By February 1992, the former Soviet states were consolidated as the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

2. While representing Zenit at the 2011 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup, he scored a double against HJK Helsinki in the quarterfinal round.

3. For the next year and a half various attempts to keep its unity and transform it into the military of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) failed.

4. Election observers from the Russia-led Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) differed on the Belarusian election.

5. On December 21 of the same year Moldova, along with most of the former Soviet republics, signed the constitutive act that formed the post-Soviet Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

6. International organizations and financial institutions and the Governments of developed countries are providing financial and technical support for the educational reforms taking place in Uzbekistan (World Bank, Asian Development Bank, the Japanese Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund (OECF), the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), Technical Assistance to the Commonwealth of Independent States (TACIS), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the American Council for Collaboration in Education and Language Study (ACCELS) and others).