commonwealth of independent states

• confederation of countries which were members of the former soviet union, cis
the commonwealth of independent states was founded in 1991 at the dissolution of the union of soviet socialist republics. its headquarters are in minsk. former soviet republics which founded the commonwealth of independent states are: armenia, azerbaijan, byelorussia, kazakhstan, kyrgyzstan, moldavia, russia, tadjikistan, turkmenistan, ukraine, and uzbekistan.