The Commonwealth of Independent States - that's what the organization is called today, which arose on the fragments of the Soviet Union after its collapse. Many member countries of the former superpower were not fully prepared for absolute independence, which brought about the mentioned alliance.
A brief history of the emergence of the CIS
The USSR united within its borders very diverse in culture, traditions and level of development of the province destroyed in 1917 by the revolution of the Russian Empire. For all the years of the existence of a mighty power, the leadership has repeatedly tried to bring all its national state formations to a common denominator. We can say that this policy has been largely implemented, the Union rested mainly on a strong centralized power, which "cemented" the entire state building. And as soon as it began to weaken under M. S. Gorbachev in the 80s, this immediately triggered an active national movement in the Union republics! The combination of many indicators ultimately led to the collapse of the USSR. However, long-term socio-cultural and economic-political ties that have arisen between countries over eighty years cannot be completely destroyed in a year. So on the world stage appeared a new state and political entity - the CIS.
Collisions of the Commonwealth
The countries that were part of the CIS at the time of its appearance automatically became the founders of this organization. According to the protocol of 1991, they became three states: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus. The Commonwealth very soon expanded due to new members, its numerical strength increased, but over time changed in the direction of decrease. To the question "how many countries is included in the CIS" one could answer that there are eleven. However, in 2006, Turkmenistan stated that it would be only an “associate member.” In addition, Ukraine did not approve the
Charter of the organization and formally is not its ally, Mongolia and Afghanistan participate in some parts of the Commonwealth as observers. Countries that entered the CIS and left it for political reasons also had long-term ties with Russia and the rest of the republics of the former USSR. For example, Georgia. As a result of the ill-conceived, adventurous policy of its president M. Saakashvili, who attacked South Ossetia and thereby provoked a conflict with Russia, Georgia withdrew from all structures of the Commonwealth.
Organization goals
The countries that were part of the CIS formally and factually make it possible to identify the following fact: even Russia has not signed a protocol on creating an organization, which de jure excludes our country from among the members of the Commonwealth. However, legal conflicts do not prevent the Russian Federation from being the flagship of this interstate structure. The chairmanship of the aforementioned organization is divided in turn by the countries belonging to the CIS. The list of these states looks
in the following way:
- Russia.
- Ukraine.
- Belarus
- Kazakhstan.
- Moldova.
- Kyrgyzstan
- Turkmenistan
- Azerbaijan.
- Armenia.
- Tajikistan.
- Uzbekistan
Like any other international organization, the Commonwealth has a clear organizational structure and legislative framework. The basic idea of existence is the comprehensive development of partnerships between member countries of the former USSR, while the CIS is open to new participants who have expressed a desire to join it and share its principles of organization. Countries that are members of the CIS and are members of it today had and have the full right to leave the organization for any internal reasons, and can also be excluded for violation of the Charter of this international organization.