Years of fruitless negotiations to create a free-trade zone among the members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) unexpectedly came to a successful conclusion on October 18, when Russian ...

The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) members signed an agreement on Tuesday on the establishment of a free trade zone in the CIS region. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks at a press ...

The CIS is Russia’s strategic direction for building trade and economic ties. With long-standing economic relations among the CIS member states, mutual trade and investment volumes remain significant, ...

MOSCOW, 2 December (BelTA) – The CIS is expected to sign an agreement on free trade in services and on investments in the spring of 2022, Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the CIS Economic ...

As Moscow moves to assert the Kremlin's authority in response to the Beslan crisis, it is simultaneously pushing for stronger economic and political ties with the former Soviet republics. The Russian ...

Armenian President Robert Kocharian (left), President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia (right), and President Vladimir Voronin of Moldova meet in Dushanbe at the CIS summit (ITAR-TASS) October 5, 2007 ...

The participants in an international scientific and practical conference, which is dedicated to the CIS 20th anniversary, have stated this MINSK, September 29 (Itar-Tass) —— The Commonwealth of ...