Commonwealth of Inedpendent States

an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991

Commonwealth of Independent States: a loose confederation of twelve of the fifteen states of the former Soviet Union.

Commonwealth of Independent States, a grouping of independent states formerly part of the Soviet Union

Commonwealth of Independent States (formerly USSR)

The Commonwealth of Independent States (see also NIS and former Soviet Union). The term generally refers to the countries which used to be part of the Soviet Union, with the exception of the Baltics: Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan.

Commonwealth of Independent States, created in December 1991 to promote economic trade between Russia and 11 Eastern European and Central Asian countries.