Commonweel o Independent States

Commonweel o Independent States
Commonweel o Independent States; Содружество Независимых Государств
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Admeenistrative centre	Minsk
Lairgest ceety	Moscow
Offeecial leid	Roushie
Teep	Regional organisation
Membership	9 member; states Armenie ; Azerbaijan ; Belaroushie ; Kazakhstan ; Kyrgyzstan ; Moldovae ; Roushie ; Tajikistan ; Uzbekistan ; 1associated; state Turkmenistan ;
Leaders
• Executive Secretar	Sergei Lebedev
• Presidency	Roushie
Establishment
• Belavezha Accords	8 December 1991
• Collective Security Treaty Organisation	15 Mey 1992
• Free trade agreement signed	18 October 2011
• Free Trade Aurie established	20 September 2012
Aurie
• Total	22,100,843 km2 (8,533,183 sq mi)
Population
• 2017 estimate	282,214,245
• Density	12.77/km2 (33.1/sq mi)
GDP (PPP)	2016 estimate
• Total	US$5.429 trillion
• Per capita	US$19,238
GDP (nominal)	2013 estimate
• Tot	US$2.808 trillion
• Per capita	US$10,113
Currency	Member states Armenie dram ; Azerbaijani manat ; Belaroushie ruble ; Kazakhstani tenge ; Kyrgyzstani som ; Moldovan leu ; Roushie ruble ; Tajikistani somoni ; Uzbekistani som ; Associate states Turkmenistani manat ; Ukrainian hryvnia;
Time zone	UTC+2 tae +12
	Wabsteid; www.cis.minsk.by

The Commonweel o Independent States (CIS; Roushie: Содружество Независимых Государств, СНГ), cried the Roushie Commonweel (tae distinguish it frae the Breetish Commonweel o Naitions) an aw, is a regional organisation formed during the dissolution o the Soviet Union. Nine oot o the 15 umwhile Soviet Republics are member states, an one is a associate member (Turkmenistan). Georgie widrew its membership in 2008, while the Baltic states (Estonie, Lithuanie an Latvie) chuise nae tae pairteecipate.