Individual #Commonwealth_of_Independent_States__CIS  an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991
  member:  Russia  Belarus  Moldova  Ukraine  Armenia  Azerbaijan  Sakartvelo  Kazakhstan  Kyrgystan  Tajikistan  Turkmenistan  Uzbekistan
  type:  world_organization__worldorganization__international_organization__internationalorganization  an international alliance involving many different countries

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